Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 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: |
| 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 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. |
| 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 | 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. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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 | 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
... |
| 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 | 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. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 326 Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 156n69 |
Timeline
14 May 1643: Louis XIII of France died, and was succeeded...
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14 May 1643
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
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
.
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