Louis XIV, King of France

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.

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...

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...

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.HW 's Translator's Note explains that...

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...

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.

NM published The Sun King, her biography of Louis XIV .

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 ...

JP published Louis the Fourteenth , and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, the first of her three biographies of French royalty.

MAS published Narrative of the Demolition of the Monastery of Port Royal des Champs, including biographical memoirs of its latter inhabitants.

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.

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

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: Louise de la Vallière...

King Louis XIV favoured them with apartments in the Louvre Palace, the royal residence in the centre of Paris, which became their home.

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 ...