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King of the world : the life of Louis XIV
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ISBN: 9780226690896 022669089X Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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"Philip Mansel's book is poised to become the new standard English-language biography of Louis XIV, one that takes into account the revolution in the last fifty years in knowledge about every aspect of the king's reign: the army; Catholicism; diplomacy; the arts; music; medicine; homosexuality at his court; the role of women and the publication of the entire correspondence of his second wife, Madame de Maintenon. This is a global biography of a global king, whose power on the French monarchy and state was large but also limited by laws and circumstances, and whose interests and ambitions stretched from the eastern frontiers of his territory, which he enlarged to what is essentially France's shape today, to the territories along the Mississippi and Mekong rivers. Through it all, we watch Louis XIV progressively turning from a dazzling, attractive monarch to a belligerent reactionary who sets France on the path to 1789"--


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The school of the french revolution : a documentary history of the College of Louis-le-Grand and its director, Jean-François Champagne, 1762-1814
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ISBN: 0691052298 1322885249 0691617961 0691645043 1400870631 Year: 1975 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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The College of Louis-le-Grand, now the premier lycée of France, is the only school with a connected history of education from the ancien régime to modern times. It was the only school never to close during the French Revolution, and its experience offers a new perspective on the fate of educational institutions in times of revolutionary change. In this book a noted historian describes the French college of the ancien régime and tells how it withstood crises of dissolution and reconstruction, dispersion of teachers and students, academic radicalism, loss of endowments, war, inflation, and political terror, to emerge in 1808 as a key element in Napoleon's Imperial University. R. R. Palmer's introduction illuminates the original documents, which are here translated for the first time. These documents supply valuable insight not only into the school's history, but also into the origins of the modern French educational system. From them emerges a portrait of the school's remarkable director, Jean-François Champagne, who guided his institution through the calamitous years of the Revolution.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Louis XIV
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ISBN: 1902768299 1134875940 1280113723 0203977815 9780203977811 0415090687 9780415090681 9781134875900 9781134875948 9781134875955 9781138131408 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Methuen,

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Looks at the king and his beliefs, domestic problems, and foreign policy.


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Lo stato sono io : Luigi XIV e la rivoluzione monarchia del marzo 1661
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ISBN: 8815088571 Year: 2002 Publisher: Bologna Mulino

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Exercices de bel esprit : recueil collectif de pièces fugitives du XVIIe siècle
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ISBN: 9140035298 Year: 1974 Publisher: Lund : C. W. K. Gleerup,

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Charles le Brun : first painter to King Louis XIV
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ISBN: 0810935678 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Abrams

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Embezzlement and high treason in Louis XIV's France : the trial of Nicolas Fouquet
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ISBN: 1421418258 9781421418254 9781421418247 142141824X Year: 2015 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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La collection de tapisseries de Louis XIV
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ISBN: 9782878441260 2878441265 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dijon Faton

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A sa mort, en 1715, Louis XIV laissait l'une des plus belles collections de tapisseries jamais constituées. En effet, en cinquante ans, ce souverain réunit un ensemble sans égal de plus de 2 500 pièces de haute et basse lisse, tissées d'or et d'argent pour la plupart, qu'il constitua non seulement en effectuant de prestigieuses acquisitions auprès de grands collectionneurs comme le duc d'Epernon, Nicolas Fouquet et Mazarin, mais aussi en passant d'innombrables commandes aux manufactures royales nouvellement fondées, oeuvres qui vinrent rejoindre les vénérables tentures héritées de ses ancêtres. Parmi les plus prestigieuses séries, figuraient ainsi la célèbre tenture de L'Histoire de Scipion de Jules Romain, tissage bruxellois qui avait appartenu à François 1er, plusieurs exemplaires des Actes des Apôtres d'après Raphaël, dont l'un fait pour Charles 1er d'Angleterre, issu de la fabrique de Mortlake, ou encore les superbes Chasses de Maximilien, dessinées par Bernard van Orley, aujourd'hui conservées au musée du Louvre. Parallèlement, les productions des manufactures des Gobelins et de Beauvais, inspirées principalement par Charles Le Brun, mais aussi par Nicolas Poussin et Pierre Mignard, vinrent enrichir la collection destinée désormais à la magnificence des maisons royales. L'inventaire de ces tapisseries, rédigé en 1716 après la mort du roi, encore jamais édité, est ici pour la première fois présenté dans sa totalité, commenté et surtout accompagné de l'identification de très nombreuses pièces encore conservées en France ou dans le monde, avec plus de quatre cents photographies en couleur, la plupart très récentes. Aboutissement de dix années de recherche, cette édition du texte de 1716 par Jean Vinet, Inspecteur des collections du Mobilier national, et Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, Directeur des collections, est assortie, pour chaque notice, d'une description complémentaire des tapisseries, d'un historique, d'une bibliographie et d'un commentaire. Aussi souvent que possible, la localisation des pièces est précisée avec leur reproduction. Une introduction générale et un index facilitent l'usage de ce catalogue sans équivalent sur le sujet, préfacé par Bernard Schotter, Administrateur général du Mobilier national.


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Les derniers jours de Louis XIV
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ISBN: 9782262043353 2262043353 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris : Perrin,

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Die politische Bühne : Ballett und Ritual im Jesuitenkolleg Louis-le-Grand, 1701-1762.
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ISBN: 9783826048432 Year: 2012 Publisher: Würzburg Konigshausen & Neumann

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