Louis XIV, King of France

Standard Name: Louis XIV,, King of France
Used Form: Lewis XIV
Used Form: Louis Quatorze
Used Form: Sun King
Used Form: Louis the Fourteenth

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politics Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
Fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes writes that although she was an aristocrat and has no appearance of being a rebel, she had been in some difficulty in King Louis XIV 's court,
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, pp. 119-34.
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and promulgated in...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Barker
Despite her own past conversion, JB says she has made her French author speak the English of the Church of England, in an unusual attempt to bring Catholic devotional practices to the attention of devout...
politics Hester Biddle
HB visited Queen Mary and received a pass allowing her to travel to Europe in quest of the French king , and of an end to the Nine Years War.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 38-45.
38-9
politics Elizabeth Bury
James III had been recognised by Louis XIV in 1701 (disregarding the claim of Queen Anne ) as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Cultural formation Anne Dacier
Anne and André Dacier were presented to the king while they were still Protestants, without any very positive results ensuing.
Residence Anne Dacier
King Louis XIV favoured them with apartments in the Louvre Palace, the royal residence in the centre of Paris, which became their home.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale.
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
AF issued Love and Louis XIV : The Women in the Life of the Sun King, a multiple biographical study which had been in its early stages in 2002.
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19.
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Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Georgiana Fullerton
In 1857 GF took the unusual step of publishing in Paris a novel written in French: La Comtesse de Bonneval , histoire du temps de Louis XIV, with an introduction by P. Douhaire ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Gore
Both these tales by CG are set in France and founded on French history, the former in the early eighteenth century and the latter near that century's end. The action of The Lettre de Cachet...
Textual Production Elizabeth Griffith
EG issued a translation from the recent Souvenirs of the marquise de Caylus : Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Characters of the Court of Lewis XIV; she is identified as the translator of the life and...
Textual Features Eliza Haywood
This fast-paced story is another of those that Haywood planned as a warning against passion. Set at the court of France, it features a virtuous woman (niece to the historical character Madame de Montespan
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
An anonymous translation from Voltaire , The Age of Lewis XIV, published by Dodsley , has been thought to be by CL ; her biographer Susan Carlile denies this.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
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Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press.
156n69
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
The Peasant and the Prince treats the plight of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. It ends with moralising comment: If such a people in such a land were miserable, some...
Textual Production Nancy Mitford
NM published The Sun King, her biography of Louis XIV .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1967
Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, p. various pages.
410
Textual Production Nancy Mitford
Madame de Pompadour was first published with a jacket by Cecil Beaton . Her biographies (the study of Madame de Pompadour being followed by Voltaire, 1957, Louis XIV , 1966, and Frederick the Great ...

Timeline

14 May 1643: Louis XIII of France died, and was succeeded...

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14 May 1643

Louis XIII of France died, and was succeeded by his four-year-old son as Louis XIV .

28 March 1681: Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament...

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28 March 1681

Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament (the second that year), which was, for the third time, about to pass an Exclusion Bill barring his brother James from the succession.

1686: Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery...

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1686

Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery at St Cyr near Paris, a school for impoverished noble girls. Closed with other convents at the Revolution, the institution re-opened in 1808 as a school for...

About 1700: The earliest examples of fountain pens (in...

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About 1700

The earliest examples of fountain pens (in brass, with quill nibs) were made by Nicolas Bion, instrument-maker to Louis XIV .

21 August 1715: Louis XIV died; a Regency was established...

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21 August 1715

Louis XIV died; a Regency was established (under the second duc d'Orleans ) for the underage Louis XV .

10 May 1774: Louis XV of France, great-grandson and immediate...

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10 May 1774

Louis XV of France, great-grandson and immediate successor of the Sun King , died of smallpox, and was succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI .

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