Download or read book Louis XIV an Informal Portrait written by Warren Hamilton Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis the Fourteenth written by Warren Hamilton Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of Louis XIV written by Alfredo Panicucci and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Voltaire who gave to the 17th century the name that it retains to this day, 'The century of Louis XIV'. This phrase is not just a fond tribute to a favourite ruler; it is a factual description of an age that was dominated by the longest reign in European history - the reign of the 'Sun King'. Louis was King of France for 72 years, during which time France became the most powerful and brilliant country in Europe. What was it like to live in the splendid age of the Sun King? this book is your chance to see for yourself. It is a recreation of the life and times of Louis, a living portrait of the King and his world.
Download or read book Louis XIV With Portraits written by Jacques ROUJON and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Vincent Cronin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was the greatest of all French monarchs. Coming to the throne at the age of five, he ruled for 72 years and presided over the finest flourishing of French culture and one of its greatest periods of expansionist and military glory. This biography uses contemporary sources to examine the sort of monarch Louis XIV really was. The book provides an overview of the entire civilization inspired by and reflecting the glory of the Sun King and so, while the character of Louis himself remains in the foreground, artists like Racine, Moliere, Lully and Mansart (the architect of Versailles) share the middle-ground with politicians such as Cardinal Mazarin and courtiers such as the King’s mistress, Louise de la Valliere. Vincent Cronin’s gracefully written biography of Le Roi Soleil, founded on Cronin’s deep knowledge of this period of French history, provides an illuminating portrait of the king and his court.
Download or read book Louis XIV King of France and Navarre written by Cecil Scott Forester and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis XIV s Architect written by Richard Ballard and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in architecture to establish Versailles as the centre of French world power and royal prestige. It is also a personal story, full of social, cultural, and economic history of the period as seen in the life and work of Louis Le Vau, from a humble family of craftsmen, who was a self-taught architect in the early history of the profession, skilled in technical craft skills and even grand design. He was a major contributor to the architectural glories of Paris including the Louvre, Vincennes, Versailles and the College of the Four Nations. And all achieved despite interference from the great magnates of the age like Mazarin and Colbert and constant mind-changing by the King who wanted every feature in the buildings to reflect his concept of personal, royal, prestige. Le Vau was Louis XIV's First Architect from 1654 until his death and disgrace in 1670. The social, cultural, economic and political backdrop is striking with court intrigue, scandal, corruption, luxury, indulgence and the rise of a rich bourgeoisie, but the main thrust of the story concerns Louis XIV and the royal personal ambition, and the work of a stone-cutter's son who became the Sun King's instrument. The study is good on the more technical features of architectural history - reminiscent of Pevsner's marvellous Buildings of England series.
Download or read book The Fabrication of Louis XIV written by Peter Burke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV and shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power. Images of Louis XIV included hundreds of oil paintings and engravings, three-hundred-odd medals struck to commemorate the major events of the reign, sculptures, and bronzes, as well as plays, ballets (in which the king himself sometimes appeared on stage), operas, odes, sermons, official newspapers and histories, fireworks, fountains, and tapestries. Drawing on an analysis of these representations as well as on surviving documentary sources, Peter Burke shows the conscious attempt to "invent" the image of the king and reveals how the supervision of the royal image was entrusted to a commitee, the so-called small academy. This book is not only a fascinating chronological study of the mechanics of the image-making of a king over the course of a seventy-year reign but is also an investigation into the genre of cultural construction. Burke discusses the element of propaganda implicit in image-making, the manipulation of seventeenth-century media of communication (oral, visual, and textual) and their codes (literary and artistic), and the intended audience and its response. He concludes by comparing and contrasting Louis's public image with that of other rulers ranging from Augustus to contemporary American presidents.
Download or read book The Private Life of Louis XIV Translated by Paul Thorin With a Portrait written by Louis Marie Émile BERTRAND and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Loves of Louis XIV Etc With Portraits written by Michael Glenne and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis XIV Translated by Cleveland B Chase With Portraits written by Louis Marie Émile BERTRAND and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis XIV King of France and Navarre Etc With Portraits written by Cecil Scott Forester and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Made Love Under a Portrait of Louis XIV written by Peter Mayall and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: joy
Download or read book Life Times of Louis Xiv written by Enzo Orlandi and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Vie Sensible de Louis XIV With Portraits written by Madeleine CLEMENCEAU JACQUEMAIRE and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Philippe Erlanger and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Philippe Erlanger, winner of the Grand Prix d'Histoire de l'Academie Francaise, presents an intimately detailed portrait of France's most powerful and flamboyant ruler. With a novelist's elegant language and psychological insight, Erlanger portrays the Sun King through the decades, showing the crucial effect of a childhood filled with neglect and humiliation, and vividly depicting the King's spectacular style of leadership. "A brilliant, subtle portrait."--"Le Monde." "The best work of history written in France for a century." --"Le Figaro."
