In reality, Versailles wasn’t the main royal residence ... The result is a pretty fair portrayal of King Louis XIV and his court, something historians can verify, within which a much darker ...

Laura French The Château de Versailles, the sprawling palace and ... you might be surprised to learn that King Louis XIV's extravagant former residence had pretty humble-ish beginnings.

But there was another European monarch who reigned for even longer: King Louis XIV of France ... French society would have to ...

While Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are French-­designed, the Chateau of Fontainebleau — about an hour outside of Paris — ...

When King Louis XIV -- also known as the Sun King -- moved to Versailles in 1661, he commissioned a famous French landscape ...

compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of Versailles. Andy Warhol in his house on Lexington Avenue, New York City ...

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Insanely extravagant, these palaces were primarily built by kings or bankers and financiers from the courts of the kings.

Built in the town of Versailles, 30 minutes southwest of Paris by RER train, it became the residence of the king and the seat ...

A watch made for Marie Antoinette is to go on display for the first time in the UK, at London's Science Museum. Abraham-Louis ...

Treasures from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris ... says an exhibition statement. Louis XIV’s decision to dispatch six Jesuit missionaries as “King’s Mathematicians” to China was ...

Docudrama about the life of Louis XIV nicknamed "the Sun King", the King of France who ... and built an incredible palace for himself - the Versailles.