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Author : John C. Rule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship written by John C. Rule and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Rule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship written by John C. Rule and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. Rule
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Louis 14 and the Craft of Kingship written by J. C. Rule and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis XIV (King of France)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A King's Lessons in Statecraft: Louis XIV written by Louis XIV (King of France) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hassall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy written by Arthur Hassall and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Cronin
Publisher : London, Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Vincent Cronin and published by London, Collins. This book was released on 1964 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and scholarly picture of the supreme period of France's history and the great Monarch who ruled over her. Never was an age more embodied in the personality of a single, gifted man. During his long reign (1654-1715) Louis XIV was the inspiration, the source, the impulse of all France's aspirations and acievements: not only the glory and the power, but the works of mind and imagination that have survived the ravages of time and fortune. It is of this aspect of the life and personality of Louise XIV that the author writes. Thus, while the complex figure of Louis himself naturally occupies the center, he is seen here surrounded not by the half-forgotten politicians and generals of conventional history but by men of genius: Racine, Moliere, Lully, Mignard, Le Notre, Vauban, Cassini, and their like.
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241960592
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book King of the World written by Philip Mansel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019 'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversation, especially with women: the power of women in Louis's life and reign is a particular theme of this book. Louis was obsessed by the details of government but the cost of building palaces and waging continuous wars devastated the country's finances and helped set it on the path to revolution. Nevertheless, by his death, he had helped make his grandson king of Spain, where his descendants still reign, and France had taken essentially the shape it has today. King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure in English. It draws on all the latest research to paint a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomises the idea of le grand monarque.
Author : Cecil Scott Forester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre written by Cecil Scott Forester and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olivier Bernier
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640191437
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Olivier Bernier and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV - the Sun King or Louis the Great, as he was also known - ruled France with an iron fist for over half a century, from 1651 to his death in 1715, outliving his son and even his grandson. His court at the Palace of Versailles became the most dazzling on the Continent, and through his intelligence and cunning, he made France the leading power of Europe. Now, in this masterful biography, historian Olivier Bernier brilliantly recreates Louis XIV's world to reveal the secrets of this monarch's unequaled sovereignty and to explore the singular mystique that surrounds him today. Not only was Louis heir to his father's throne, he felt he was divinely chosen to rule France. From the year he became king at the age of thirteen, he oversaw every aspect of government, from waging war and making political appointments to supervising the building of his many palaces. Along with political treachery that marked Louis XIV's long reign, Bernier also brings to light the personal scandals. We witness the poignant resignation of Louis XIV's queen to her husband's parade of mistresses and illegitimate children, the infamous intrigue when the king's brother was accused of poisoning his wife in a jealous rage, and the momentous building of Versailles, not an act of monstrous self-indulgence that bankrupted the nation but the visible expression of Louis XIV's new monarchy - his ingenious methods of centering all activity around court life, thus preventing his courtiers from fomenting rebellion. Under the Sun King, architecture, painting, music, and theater flourished, making France not only a great political force but a paradigm of fashion and culture as well. Louis XIV takes us from the grandeur of Versailles to the battlefields of the countryside, from the bedrooms of the king's mistresses to the chambers of his ministers, and presents an engrossing portrait of royal life and a commanding leader.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300059434
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (594 download)
Download or read book The Fabrication of Louis XIV written by Peter Burke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV and shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power. Images of Louis XIV included hundreds of oil paintings and engravings, three-hundred-odd medals struck to commemorate the major events of the reign, sculptures, and bronzes, as well as plays, ballets (in which the king himself sometimes appeared on stage), operas, odes, sermons, official newspapers and histories, fireworks, fountains, and tapestries. Drawing on an analysis of these representations as well as on surviving documentary sources, Peter Burke shows the conscious attempt to "invent" the image of the king and reveals how the supervision of the royal image was entrusted to a commitee, the so-called small academy. This book is not only a fascinating chronological study of the mechanics of the image-making of a king over the course of a seventy-year reign but is also an investigation into the genre of cultural construction. Burke discusses the element of propaganda implicit in image-making, the manipulation of seventeenth-century media of communication (oral, visual, and textual) and their codes (literary and artistic), and the intended audience and its response. He concludes by comparing and contrasting Louis's public image with that of other rulers ranging from Augustus to contemporary American presidents.
Author : Aurora von Goeth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526726408
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Aurora von Goeth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, straightforward biography of the seventeenth-century French monarch and his seventy-two-year reign. Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand—France’s self-styled “Sun King”—ruled France and its people, leaving his unique and permanent mark on history and shaping fashion, art, culture and architecture like none other before. This frank and concise book gives the reader a personal glimpse into the Sun King’s life and times as we follow his rise in power and influence: from a miraculous royal birth no one ever expected to the rise of king as absolute monarch, through the evolution of the glittering Château de Versailles, scandals and poison, four wars and many more mistresses . . . right up to his final days. Absolute monarch. Appointed by God. This is Louis XIV, the man. We will uncover his glorious and not-so-glorious obsessions. His debilitating health issues. His drive and passions. And we will dispel some myths, plus reveal the people in his intimate circle working behind the scenes on the Louis propaganda machine to ensure his legacy stayed in the history books forever. This easy-to-read narrative is accompanied by a plethora of little-known artworks, so if you’re a Louis XIV fan or student, or just eager to know more about France’s most famous king, we invite you to delve into court life of seventeenth-century French aristocracy, the period known as Le Grand Siècle—“The Grand Century.”
Author : Alfredo Panicucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Louis XIV written by Alfredo Panicucci and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Voltaire who gave to the 17th century the name that it retains to this day, 'The century of Louis XIV'. This phrase is not just a fond tribute to a favourite ruler; it is a factual description of an age that was dominated by the longest reign in European history - the reign of the 'Sun King'. Louis was King of France for 72 years, during which time France became the most powerful and brilliant country in Europe. What was it like to live in the splendid age of the Sun King? this book is your chance to see for yourself. It is a recreation of the life and times of Louis, a living portrait of the King and his world.
Author : John Baptist Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333134986
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by John Baptist Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Wolf focuses on the problems of high politics and war, which intrigued Louis and were his instruments of power. Without ignoring the fact that Louis was also a son, husband, lover, and father as well as king he gives us a striking new image of Louis as soldier administrator and a vivid, accurate picture of the king s impact on the military machine after 1691, his part in the drama of war and in the emergence of a new Europe."
Author : Tony Claydon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317103238
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV Outside In written by Tony Claydon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV - the ’Sun King’ - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions. Thus in France Louis is still chiefly remembered for the splendid baroque culture his reign ushered in, and his political achievements in wielding together a strong centralised French state; whereas in England, the Netherlands and other protestant states, his memory is that of an aggressive military tyrant and persecutor of non-Catholics. In order to try to break free of such parochial strictures, this volume builds upon the approach of scholars such as Ragnhild Hatton who have attempted to situate Louis’ legacy within broader, pan-European context. But where Hatton focused primarily on geo-political themes, Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary and musical themes. In particular it examines the formulation and use of images of Louis XIV abroad, concentrating on Louis' neighbours in north west Europe. This broad geographical coverage demonstrates how images of Louis XIV were moulded by the polemical needs of people far from Versailles, and distorted from any French originals by the particular political and cultural circumstances of diverse nations. Because the French regime’s ability to control the public image of its leader was very limited, the collection highlights how - at least in the sphere of public presentation - his power was frequently denied, subverted, or appropriated to very different purposes, questioning the limits of his absolutism which has also been such a feature of recent work.
Author : Andrew Lossky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813526874
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and the French Monarchy written by Andrew Lossky and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Louis XIV in the context of his times, the author (retired history, UCLA) attempts no psychological analysis of the king and includes no discussion of the social history of the period. Admitting that standard political and diplomatic history is his forte, Lossky instead details the domestic, international, and religious policies of the Sun King, demonstrating that there indeed was an evolution and transformation of his political ideas over the course of his long life. The early chapters of this book should prove valuable to those interested in a general understanding of the period. The author's primary focus, however, is on the mounting tension between Rome and Versailles and on the overall failure of Louis's policies to establish Catholic uniformity in France. Specialists in French history will welcome this comprehensive, readable, and well-written political biography.
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494300296
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book French Legends written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes famous art depicting Louis XIV and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes pictures of the Palace of Versailles. *Discusses the reign and legacy of Europe's longest reigning king. "Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate." - Louis XIV A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. France's most famous King, and Europe's longest serving, Louis XIV (1638-1715) is often viewed today as a symbol of royal extravagance and splendor. Reigning for over 72 years, the legacy of the "Sun King" is remembered for the magnificent Palace of Versailles, the patronizing of arts and theater, and the apocryphal quote "L'Etat c'est moi" (I am the State). Although it is more than fair to associate the Sun King with vanity and unfathomable spending on luxury, the laser sharp focus on the superficial aspects of the man and his reign have come to overshadow just how effective he was as a ruler. Becoming King as a child and assuming actual power in his early 20s, Louis spent nearly 55 years centralizing and consolidating power in his monarchy by bringing the aristocracy to heel and keeping religious divisions from devolving into violence, thereby passing off to his successor an absolute monarchy with a very solid foundation. At the same time, his foreign policies, though often criticized as quests for glory, helped establish France as the dominant power on the European continent and firmly in control of an overseas colonial empire that stretched both east and west. And of course, while his spending and extravagance are viewed critically today, his construction of the Europe's most famous palace and his patronizing of the arts established the kind of culture and society that France is still famous for across the world today. French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XIV looks at the life and reign of one of history's most famous Kings, explaining his influence in a historical light and analyzing the monumental legacy he left behind. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Sun King like you never have before, in no time at all.
