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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
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her choice of genres came from her reading in French, not English, fiction, though Louisa (one of two survivors from a cycle of tales set at the court of Louis XIV
of France) also... |
| Textual Production | Julia Pardoe | JP
published Louis the Fourteenth
, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, the first of her three biographies of French royalty. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | In his review in the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley
admitted that the novel wasnot wholly devoid of attraction and that it contained a tolerably lively picture of the court of Louis Quatorze
... |
| Textual Production | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
published Narrative of the Demolition of the Monastery
of Port Royal des Champs, including biographical memoirs of its latter inhabitants. Port Royal was demolished in 1709 by order of Louis XIV
. Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | GS
's mother, born Suzanne Churchod
, came from a family that had experienced persecution as Protestants during the reign of Louis XIV
. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 5 |
| Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: |
| Performance of text | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | MCV
's Le Favory became the first play by a woman to be given at a command performance before the French monarch
(with newly-composed music by Jean-Baptiste Lully
and a prologue, now lost, by Molière
). Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale. 386-7 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | MCV
inherited money at her husband's death, and King Louis XIV
granted her orphaned son a pension as well as his late father's position. |
| Dedications | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | MCV
's Fables, ou histoires allégoriques, published in 1670, had earlier been presented to the king
(their dedicatee) in the form of a splendid manuscript. Her interest in the genre may have been fed... |
| Textual Production | Helen Waddell | The work had first seen the light as a series of articles in the Nineteenth Century and After, despite the difficulties caused by shortage of paper. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 160, 161 |
| Literary Setting | Ann Yearsley | After her deliberately egotistical preface AY
erases herself to present her novel as a manuscript written by her male protagonist, Henry, imprisoned in a castle on an island; his tale begins during the night of... |
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