How To Use Louis x In A Sentence
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The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
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The contredanse is a French import, with origins in the court of King Louis XIV.
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Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles.
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One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
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During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
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In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!
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During the wars of the reign of Louis XIV. the margraviate was ravaged by the French troops, and the margrave of Baden-Baden, Louis William (d. 1707), was prominent among the soldiers who resisted the aggressions of France.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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PARIS — Opening last week, "Un Tramway Nomm é D é sir," a French version of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Streetcar Named Desire," became the first work by an American playwright — or any non-European author — to enter the repertory of the Com é die Fran ç aise, the classic theater company founded by Louis XIV in 1680.
French 'Streetcar' Takes a Detour Via Japan
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The French finance minister is heir to a tradition of central control that goes back to Louis XIV's minister, Colbert.
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Fine French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted marquetry, rosewood and tulipwood table de milieu.
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Bow ties have been around for more than 300 years, their origin traceable, as one story goes, to the court of Louis XIV of France in the 1600s.
Bow Ties
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The term mainly refers to King Louis XVI as he was young when he became king of France.
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Under the coating of dust and cobwebs, he discovered a fine French Louis XVI clock.
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It was painted for the private oratory in the apartments of Anne of Austria in the Palais Royale, Paris, into which she had moved following the death of her husband, Louis XIII, in 1643.
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It is in fact a fine copy of the Louis XVI style, but elaborate innovations such as the pronounced breakfront covered in flowerhead and geometric trellis exclude it from being a superior piece.
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Historically, economic boom times bring florescence in music and the arts, whether in the Florence of the Medici, Habsburg Vienna, or the France of Louis XIV.
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Jones became obsessed with regality, parading around Paris in dress uniform, taking audiences with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and courting French debutantes.
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Louis XI spoke of "la goutte d'or" (the golden drop) in the wines, and Mr. Joly has a picture of Louis the XIV touring the vineyards in a chariot.
Mr. Joly's Particularly Pure Terroir
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A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
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And when I was hoping to comprehend why "La force" did not "fonder" anything I would hear Mr. Hoffman whisper, "When you think that Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette passed the last evening they ever spent in Versailles in this theater!
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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In the aftermath of defeat in the Seven Years War, Louis XV went as far as to commission projects for the abolition of the corvée and the re-establishment of provincial estates in a bid to restore public support.
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IN the time of Louis XII., the legate at Avignon being then a lord of the house of Amboise, nephew to the Legate of France, whose name was George, there was a lady in Languedoc who had an income of more than four thousand ducats.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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The obverse of the medal shows the portrait of King Louis XIV and the reverse shows the Thai ambassadors.
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While her earlier houses were twentieth-century pastiches of the Louis XVI style, here she had authentic eighteenth-century French boiserie installed in the drawing and dining rooms.
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How would a visitor from the future look to a courtier in Louis XIV's Versailles?
MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel
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Bishop Fenelon, a contemporary of Louis XIV, was an eminent and great philosopher, a critic of government, and tutor to the Duke of Burgoyne, heir to the French throne.
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One can detect this same attitude in almost all the odes addressed to great nobles, including Louis XIII.
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At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool (tabouret or pliant) depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand.
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Affable, intelligent, and a talented general, the regent was also a libertine and a rake who had fallen foul of the starchy atmosphere of Versailles during Louis XIV's twilight years.
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A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
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Loss of public confidence underlay the financial and political crisis which precipitated the downfall of a system of government too little changed in its habits and priorities since the days of Louis XIV.
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During the regency of Duke of Orleans, regent for the minor heir Louis XV, the formalities of the court gave way to a more casual and intimate atmosphere.
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Truculent and self-confident as he was, he never acted against the royal authority in such a manner as to oblige the king to strike him down in secret; and it is difficult to believe that Louis XIV, peaceably seated on his throne, with all the enemies of his minority under his feet, should have revenged himself on the duke as an old Frondeur.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
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Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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The exquisite white marble mantel is Italian, not French, of the time of Louis XVI.
The Art of Interior Decoration
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The younger branch of the house of Navarreins bears quarterly with the arms of Navarreins those of Lansac, namely, azure, and argent party per pale raguly, between six spear-heads in pale, and the old lady’s liaison with Louis XV. had earned her husband the title of duke by royal patent.
Domestic Peace
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He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658.
D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
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He made his official debut at the Paris Opera in 1759 during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Revolution, and beheader of Louis XVI.; he attended two masses commemorating the death of the King, celebrated in 1793 and 1794, by the Abbe de Marolles, to whom his identity was afterwards disclosed by
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2
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Jones was formally honored by the King, presented with a gold-hilted sword, engraved, Jones happily recorded, “with these extremely flattering words: Vindicati Maris Ludovicus XVI remunerator Strenua Vindici reward from Louis XVI to the valiant avenger of the rights of the sea.”
John Paul Jones
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The King ( Louis XVI ) prepared for a struggle and brought up troops from the provinces.
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It was well, too, that under a new dynasty, with its title disputed, England should not encourage France to continue the friendly policy of Louis XIV towards James, the deposed Stuart Pretender.
The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars
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A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
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With many generations to come, the name of César de St. Auban must perforce be familiar as that of one of the greatest roysterers and most courtly libertines of the early days of Louis XIV., as well as that of a rabid anti-cardinalist and frondeur, and one of the earliest of that new cabal of nobility known as the petits-maîtres, whose leader the Prince de Condé was destined to become a few years later.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
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Even if you're not among the official 3,500 guests who will partake of the sumptuous, four-course wedding dinner orchestrated by the Louis XV's three-Michelin star chef Alain Ducasse all the vegetables will be plucked fresh from the prince's private garden the night before, you can still sample Mr. Ducasse's trademark gastro-morphing of southern French and Ligurian peasant food.
To Catch a View in Monaco
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He spent two years in the post, toiling to save Louis XVI, sheltering aristocrats from the Paris mob, and working hard to protect American merchant vessels against French privateers.
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Commines, an honester writer, though I fear, by the masters whom he pleased, not a much less servile courtier, says that the virtues of Louis XI. preponderated over his vices.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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On her right wrist she conspicuously displays a cameo bracelet bearing the profile of Louis XV.
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The French throne did not pass to his son, as he had hoped, but to Louis XVIII, the brother of Louis XVI.
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He was the official painter to the daughters of Louis XV, and then became painter to Jean Philippe, chevalier d' Orleans.
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The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties.
A Royalist Fiasco
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A list of the gravamina of the Churches and the clerics, discussed at the Council of Vienne (1311), contains ample proof of the abuse of authority to which the Church was subjected, and the writer of the poem "Avisemens pour le roy Loys," composed in 1315 for Louis X, exhorted this new king to live in peace with the Church, which Philip
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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No Scottish Labour leader would dream of letting himself be trammelled by the kind of political constraints that hobbled Louis XIV.
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On 9-19-1783, the brothers showed their balloon to King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette and guests at the Palace of Versailles.
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They refused to be converted by the priests; and then Louis XIV. determined to dragonnade them.
The Huguenots in France
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As Parisian chair makers began adopting Tillard's designs, the frames of both caned and Louis XV bergère chairs were at times gilded or painted.
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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Here a pair of 1850 card tables are for sale at up to Pounds 10,000 and a Louis XVI-style suite, ￡5,000.
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Anyway, our tutor, who believes we are all on the simple side, favours questions with easy and obvious answers and was pumping us for information on Louis XVI.
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Louis XII became king of France in 1498 and, being a descendant of the first duke of Milan, he claimed the duchy.
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He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658.
D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
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His glacially cold mother despised family life and soon turned her back on her son, while his father was one of the most legendary rakes of Louis XV's reign.
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When I first heard Pentagon newspeak refer to assassination as ‘decapitation,’ I naturally thought of Charles I and Louis XVI.
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But the conflict had reawakened French interest in Italy, and in 1619 a dynastic marriage was concluded between Charles Emanuel's heir and Louis XIII's sister.
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The hangings were of Rouen cretonne imitating old Normandy chintz, and the Louis XV. design — a shepherdess, in a medallion held in the beaks of a pair of doves — gave the walls, curtains, bed, and arm-chairs a festive, rustic style that was extremely pretty!
Pierre And Jean
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In French, Louis XIV did not say L’état, c’est je; French has what they call the disjunctive pronoun so they can say C’est moi and Il est plus grand que moi.
Between you and ?
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His death shortly afterwards occasioned louder public grief than that of Louis XV four years earlier.
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(“Biron,” in Shakespeare’s _Love’s Labor’s Lost_; “Romeo,” in his _Romeo and Juliet_.) _Orleans_ (_Gaston, duke of_), brother of Louis XIII.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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The obverse of the medal shows the portrait of King Louis XIV and the reverse shows the Thai ambassadors showing their respect during the audience with the King.
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The bed, which incorporates two fleur-de-lys, is rumored to have been made for a favorite retreat of Louis XIV, though that has never been substantiated.
A Bed (Not for Sleeping)
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She talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate.
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She then became the official mistress of Louis XV and marquise before ending up as lady-in-waiting to the queen, de facto minister, and pious, platonic consort of the king.
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I add another chronogram "by Godard, upon the birth of Louis XIV. in 1638, on a day when the eagle was in conjunction with the lion's heart:
Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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This was the coup d'état of his grandfather Louis XV and chancellor Maupeou against the parlements.
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He also believed he was the reincarnation of Louis XVI and that your mother was Marie Antoinette.
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In 1663 the Académie Royale was refounded under the protection of Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, for whom it was primarily an instrument of his centralizing statecraft.
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George III was interested in horology, and Louis XVI enjoyed locksmithing.
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We Parisians generally make a mistake as to the ground which we think that we have gained, since Paris has not increased much over one-third since the time of Louis XI.
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In 1773-84 the whole church was remodelled in eighteenth - century taste, the columns of the choir were fluted, the apse and doors were finished in Louis XVI style.
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The first official relations were formed between France and China when the missionaries brought thither by the "Amphitrite", the first French vessel seen in Chinese waters (1699), presented gifts from Louis XIV to Emperor K'ang-hi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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When the fear of an alliance between the deposed Stuart and Louis XIV seized England, and her colonies, the trainbands in New York were required every day to go to the fort.
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As a child, she had dreamed dreams of the Reign of Terror, of Louis XVI at the guillotine, and of the chaos and bloodshed of battle.
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During the eighteenth century Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, was a frequent guest here; now, her favourite room with its canopied bed is yours for the asking.
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Entrusted by Louis XIV with a most extensive mission and jurisdiction over all the French possessions in the New World, he first redeemed Cayenne from the Dutch, restored order to the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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This copy of a Louis XVI commode was made by one of Europe's finest cabinetmakers, Francois Linke.
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On the death of Maria Leczinska, the whole of her chamber furniture was given up to the Countess de Noailles, afterwards Maréchale de Mouchy, with the exception of two large rock crystal lusters, which Louis XV ordered should be preserved as appurtenances to the crown.
How la Reine-Martyre Marie-Antoinette was clothed
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Under the coating of dust and cobwebs, he discovered a fine French Louis XVI clock.
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Louis XVI., no longer feeble and irresolute, blundering and inert, becomes a patient, tranquil man, brave unto death, with charity to all, a true Christian, the innocent expiator of the crimes and faults of other reigns.
The Ruin of a Princess
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Like his successor Louis XIV, the son of Marie de Medicis was one of the most "unamusable" of monarchs; and like Cinq-Mars himself, he was weary of the unvaried routine of pleasures which made up the sum of his existence while confined to his own capital; and thus he welcomed every prospect of change without caring to investigate the motives of those by whom it was proposed.
The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
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Louis XIII inherited a difficult situation with regards to religion.
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The corvée, forced labour for road construction and maintenance, took hands away from the fields for substantial periods every year; and when, under Louis XVI, it began to be commuted, the cost was added to the tax-bill.
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At the appointed hour when courtiers of Louis XIV were finally to call at the shop to test its wares, Pan returned prematurely from a stroll in the park, his malodor at high mast due to exercise and the sappy influences of spring.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Louis XV, eager to bolster national prestige and expand his empire in the Pacific, launches Louis-Antoine de Bougainville on the first French circumnavigation of the world.
Incredible Voyage
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The Pavillion de La Bouexiere, as it was called in the eighteenth century, attracted noted celebrities such as Louis XV's queen consort, Marie Leszczynska.
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So many collectors fall into the trap of buying a ‘Louis XV’ piece that is clearly 19th century in origin and concept.
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Jean-Henri Riesener was ebeniste (cabinetmaker) to Louis XVI, pupil of the great Oeben (maker of Louis XV's desk), and the man considered the greatest of his trade, among not inconsiderable competition, in the last quarter of the 18th century.
All Hands on Deco
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Bouvard, physician to Louis XIII, applied two hundred and twenty enemata to this monarch in the course of six months.
Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
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At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool (tabouret or pliant) depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand.
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Why would collectors of Thai medals be interested in a French medal with King Louis XIV on the obverse?
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During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
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The cooking world was large enough to hold Kitchener and the ci-devant chef to the most Christian King Louis XVI. and the Right Honourable the
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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Like Louis XVI, he was a keen horologist, and was able to reassemble even the most complicated watches, and he amassed an impressive set of clocks for Buckingham House.
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Thus we have a medley of dates, spanning the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XV, if you include the rococo picture frame on the Rigaud to the right of the chimney.
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In the Church, nobles occupied all bishoprics and all the choicest abbacies and canonries, and under Louis XVI it became a matter of policy that they should.
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To the pain of defeat, Louis XV added the shame of dishonour.
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Another example of formative assessment is having students write a business letter to King Louis XVI from the perspective of a member of the Third Estate in France prior to the Revolution.
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Jean-Henri Riesener was ebeniste (cabinetmaker) to Louis XVI, pupil of the great Oeben (maker of Louis XV's desk), and the man considered the greatest of his trade, among not inconsiderable competition, in the last quarter of the 18th century.
All Hands on Deco
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To the pain of defeat, Louis XV added the shame of dishonour.
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In 1783 Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the court took up a brief residence here to assist at the aerostatic experiences of De Rosier, and in 1787, ceasing to be a royal residence, La Muette was offered for sale after first having been stripped of its precious wainscotings, its marbles and the artistic curiosities of all sorts with which it had been decorated.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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When the comptroller-general proposed to the king to abolish privileges, and assess the impost equally, renouncing the twentieths, diminishing the gabel, suppressing custom-houses in the interior and establishing provincial assemblies, Louis XVI. recognized an echo of his illustrious ministers.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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Now the whole country is likely to get a glimpse of the table, which is not a font, but fine Parisian relic from the 1850s, bearing 20 hand-painted miniatures from the court of Louis XVI.
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The heir to the throne was Louis XIV's only son, Louis, le Grand Dauphin, who in turn had three sons: Louis' father, who was the eldest, Philippe, Duc d'Anjou soon to be confirmed as Philip V of Spain, and Charles, Duc de Berry.
Archive 2008-02-10
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The phoenix/model is returned to the petting zoo, for the time seemingly banished from the house with the Louis XIV settee and flat-screen TV.
Kanye West debuts 'Runaway' movie: We watch and recap
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France had various experiments with monarchy, even after the decapitation of Louis XVI.
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A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
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Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry
Les Miserables
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A man "full cautelous," as was said of Louis XI., for instance, could apply that special faculty in every direction, but to-day the single quality is subdivided, and every profession has its special craft.
Lost Illusions
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She was alone, so far, in her large Louis XVI drawing room, the bronzes and brocades of which had a bright gayness.
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When Louis XIV began his personal rule in 1661 he envisioned restoring order to a society suffering from civil strife, international war, and periodic waves of disease and famine.
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When the guillotine dropped on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it might have been thought that France had abandoned all trappings of aristocracy.
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Upon assessing his realm's decaying power, Louis XV allegedly mumbled ‘Après moi, le deluge.’
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the very fact of the revolution - a popular rising against the established order - placed Louis XVI beyond the scope and protection of the new regime.
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By the word devotee, we understand what Louis XIV. and Moliere did, persons the piety of whom consists in external observances; pious and charitable persons have nothing to do with this class.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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His earlier books include a study of the Court and a biography of Louis XVIII.
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Even Louis XIV was careful to take advice on all important decisions, and men born to be king (for queens regnant were prohibited by French law) were carefully taught that counsel was of the essence of their sovereign authority.
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Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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Artillery units were first organized as military establishments in 1671 by Louis XIV of France, who also initiated schools of instruction for his artillerists.
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He is, among much else, the historian of the bourgeois kitchen under Louis XV, and recorder of its homely affinity of terracotta jars and pottery serving dishes, glossy only because of hard scrubbing.
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Louis mistakenly drinks the Mickey Finn intended for Alec, falls asleep, and dreams he is King Louis XV of France, and that May is Madame du Barry, and that Alec is a dashing rebel called the Black Arrow.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The bounty was intended for the Duke of Savoy, a bribe to keep him allied with England in its war against Louis XIV.
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Commissioned by Louis XIV in the 1660s, the gallery's iconographic programme by Le Brun allegorises the Sun King as Apollo in a scheme that was not completed until the nineteenth century, under the architect Felix Duban.
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Louis XIV's brother Duke Arthur - a bit of a playboy, by all accounts - installed a billiard table with pegs in the games room of his Castle Bagatelle gaff.
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Students are now categorised by class as rigorously as nobles at the court of Louis XIV.
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Louis XIII helped expand the compelling course of structures of the French state.
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The titled riffraff that had adorned the Louis XV-du
The French Revolution A Short History
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Behind all the pomp and ceremony of Louis XIV's court, the ancien regime was rotting.
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In the Church, nobles occupied all bishoprics and all the choicest abbacies and canonries, and under Louis XVI it became a matter of policy that they should.
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Louis XVI recalled Necker to his job and agreed to recognise the National Assembly, which included the Third Estate delegates, poorer clergy and nobility sympathetic to the Third Estate cause.
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In its external manifestation, the new stage ballet represented a revival of the old court ballet, which had fallen into desuetude when Louis XIV had ceased to dance in 1670.
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The French finance minister is heir to a tradition of central control that goes back to Louis XIV's minister, Colbert.
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Initially built under the reign of Louis XV , it was meant to be a church modeled after a Roman temple.
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The context was exceptional, for royal authority was weakened by the minority of Louis XIV.
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French courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV. She was guillotined for crimes against the state by a Revolutionary tribunal.
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The globes, massive representations of the map of the earth and the map of the stars, were offered as gifts to the King of France, Louis XIV.
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I've always associated Roberto Rossellini with neorealism so it's a shock for me to discover The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV ($29.95; Criterion) and Rossellini's History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment ($59.95; Eclipse).
Michael Giltz: DVDs: What Should Obama Watch?
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Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
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The twenty-year-old Louis XIV offered them an unfinished part of the Louvre to use as a rent-free theater.
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The kitchens follow the tradition of the infamous chef Vatel by serving lavish grub, as in the days of King Louis XIV.
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Louis XV was the period when outline and decoration were merged in one and the _shell_ which figured in Louis XIV merely as an ornament, gave its form (in a curved outline) and its name "rococo" (Italian for shell) to the style.
The Art of Interior Decoration
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Until May 23 www. nationalgallery.org.uk It's easy enough to accept that Delaroche is using the beheaded Charles I as a trope for Louis XVI, and the background to all his paintings is full of interest.
'Don Pasquale' Arias Titillate
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A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
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Apparently, King Louis XIII's loyal musketeers have been disgraced and now hide out among the townspeople.
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This was where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were guillotined, along with more than 2,000 others between 1793 and 1795.
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When she was eventually defeated by Edward IV, she was kept captive in various English castles until ransomed by Louis XI.
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One of the sentinels, posted inside the tower, wrote one day on the door of the king's chamber: "The guillotine is permanent, and is awaiting the tyrant, Louis XVI.
The Ruin of a Princess
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As for Louis XVI, it seems he, too, found himself unable to consummate his marriage to his Austrian wife, Marie Antoinette.
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Subsequently lost all autonomy, subject to the House of Anjou who ruled the territory from 1245 until 1482, when the region fell under the rule of King Louis XI of France, being annexed in 1486.
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Man of ability as he was, Louis XVIII. liked a pleasant jest.
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When {15} the effluvious corpse of Louis XV was hastily smuggled from Versailles to the Cathedral of St. Denis in 1774, that seemed to mark the final dissolution into rottenness of the
The French Revolution A Short History
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Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.?
Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
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She plays Anne de Montausier, who arrives with King Louis XIV's court for a three-day fête.
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Louis XIV had already given her pensions and gifts of money in appreciation for her care of his children, and in February of the next year he conferred upon her the title marquise de Maintenon.
Louis XIV's Secret Wife
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The gracious King Louis XVI signed over one million dollars in arms and munitions.
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-- Hence, during four centuries, they had spun the tissue of "regalian rights," the great net in the meshes of which, since Louis XIV., all lives found themselves caught. [
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
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For in reality France under Louis XVI was governed not by the nobility, but by a plutocracy in which the majority of nobles had no share.
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An awareness that long before 1789 French people were insulting their king has tempted some historians to write of the desacralization of the monarchy under Louis XV.
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-- Still another chicken dish that may be used to break the monotony of meals is chicken bechamel, the word bechamel being the name of a sauce invented by Béchamel, who was steward to Louis XIV,
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
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When the campaign's lowball estimate of how much it can collect for a primary race without opposition is $170 million, you're looking at the greatest political fundraising machine since Louis XIV dined alone.
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Prioris presumably held that position for at least four more years; the chronicler Jean d'Auton placed him, again identified as maistre de chapelle, with Louis XII at the siege of Genoa in April 1507.
Archive 2009-05-01
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While Elliott remains a staunch supporter of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, the Duke sides with the anti-monarchists.
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The artifacts on display include replicas of a model of Louis XII's throne with a commode fitted to the seat, bathroom palazzo from Britain, ones shaped like a book, a globe, a treasure chest and western commodes in various designs.
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It may be affirmed that the writers of the age of Louis XIV would not have used these expressions: they would never have thought of using the word "equality" without applying it to some particular object; and they would rather have renounced the term altogether than have consented to make a living personage of it.
Democracy in America, volume 2
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However, some ten years later events in Europe had taken a serious turn; 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution and in 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were guillotined.
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That part of the German aristocracy who refuse to go to court, and are accordingly called by the name Fronde, first given to the opponents of Cardinal Mazarin, in the reign of Louis XIV, consist chiefly of a few old families of Prussian Poland,
William of Germany
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Those made under Perkhin tend to be in the rococo Louis XV style and often have bodies of hardstones such as nephrite or bowenite.
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The word was apparently coined in the 1790s by David's students, wittily combining rocaille and barocco, to refer disparagingly to the taste fashionable under Louis XV.
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The mortal remains of Louis XVII have been laid to rest.
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The rage for mirrors reached an apogee in the construction of the great Hall of Mirrors at Louis XIV's palace at Versailles, completed in 1678; here the Sun King's magnificence could be endlessly reflected.
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Many opposition deputies boycotted the event, held at the palace of Versailles , once Louis XIV's royal seat, on the grounds that it breached the principle of the separation of powers.
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Oh. I would rather mount the scaffold of my brother, Louis XVI. , than thus descend the staircase at the Tuileries driven away by ridicule.
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Because while The Auteur treated his fellow hacks with a haughtiness that made Louis XIV look like Michael Palin, it was as nothing compared to the froideur he reserved for football managers.
The Auteur proves his value in offhand dismissals of class acts | Harry Pearson
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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It was considered so shocking that Louis XV sent his Lord Lieutenant from Paris to find the animal and dispatch it.
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Louis XIV's obsession with grandeur expanded to other aspects of life, including art.
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Although he distinguished himself in the fighting, the French were chased out of their Italian territories including the duchy of Milan which Louis XII had ruled since 1499.
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Additional corroboration of the French style of the embroidery - both on the King's Bed and on the suit - derives from its close similarity with that of the horse caparisons and saddles given by Louis XIV to Charles XI of Sweden in 1673.
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One shed shelters an entire semicircle of _treillage_, pure Louis XV., an exquisite example of a lost art.
The Ways of Men
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A Louis XV secretaire desk and chest of drawers recently went for $800, a third of what it could have sold for in the recent past; and 19th-century grandfather clocks now sell for as little as $1,500, down from about $3,500 a year ago.
New Bargains on Old Furniture
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Un jour, Louis XII apprit qu'un grand seigneur avait battu un laboureur.
French Conversation and Composition
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English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born.
The House in Good Taste
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Louis XIII cognac that the world's best with rich texture and lingering finish the transcendent, it is worth every man love to savor cognac.
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As so often before, however, Louis XIV miscalculated how foreigners would view his actions.
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The Princess Élisabeth, sister of the unfortunate Louis XVI, is almost the only figure which emerges unsullied from the unspeakable corruption of the French Court under Louis XV.
The Ruin of a Princess
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There was not a trace of Manicheanism in him, and he called puritanism, in his biography of Louis XIV, an “evil out of the pit”, meaning the pit of hell.
Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith
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It is in the reign of Louis XIV., as has been said, that this eloquence had its greatest splendour, and that the language was fixed.
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So that she could play at being a countrywoman at Versailles, Louis XV provided her with a hermitage comprising a pavilion, a menagerie, a pasture, dairy and kitchen garden.
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The younger branch of the house of Navarreins bears quarterly with the arms of Navarreins those of Lansac, namely, azure, and argent party per pale raguly, between six spear-heads in pale, and the old lady's liaison with Louis XV. had earned her husband the title of duke by royal patent.
Domestic Peace
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There Louis XVI. 's brothers were living in fancied security surrounded by their pigmy court - a court as full of etiquette and ceremonial as that of the Grand Monarque himself!
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
