The Age Of Louis Xiv

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9788075835888

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The Age Of Louis XIV (Complete Edition) by Voltaire Pdf

This eBook edition of "The Age Of Louis XIV" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Voltaire had an enormous influence on the development of historiography through his demonstration of fresh new ways to look at the past. The Age of Louis XIV is one of his best-known histories. In this book, Voltaire is painting to posterity, not the actions of one man, Louis XIV, but more importantly the minds of men in the most enlightened age that ever was. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He was an outspoken advocate of several liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

Author : VOLTAIRE. VOLTAIRE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103379399X

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AGE OF LOUIS XIV, by VOLTAIRE. VOLTAIRE Pdf

Author : Laurence Bradford Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : France
ISBN : NWU:35556037941341

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The Age of Louis XIV. by Laurence Bradford Packard Pdf

Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241960592

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King of the World by Philip Mansel Pdf

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 : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385672511

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Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser Pdf

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life. The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis’s accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women. The king’s mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for twenty-two years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A devout Catholic, she instilled in her son a strong sense of piety and fought successfully for his right to absolute power. In 1660, Louis married his first cousin, Marie-Thérèse, in a political arrangement. While unfailingly kind to the official Queen of Versailles, Louis sought others to satisfy his romantic and sexual desires. After a flirtation with his sister-in-law, his first important mistress was Louise de La Vallière, who bore him several children before being replaced by the tempestuous and brilliant Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. Later, when Athénaïs’s reputation was tarnished, the King continued to support her publicly as Athénaïs left court for a life of repentance. Meanwhile her children’s governess, the intelligent and seemingly puritanical Françoise de Maintenon, had already won the King’s affections; in a relationship in complete contrast to his physical obsession with Athénaïs, Louis XIV lived happily with Madame de Maintenon for the rest of his life, very probably marrying her in secret. When his grandson’s child bride, the enchanting Adelaide of Savoy, came to Versaille she lightened the King’s last years – until tragedy struck. With consummate skill, Antonia Fraser weaves insights into the nature of women’s religious lives – as well as such practical matters as contraception – into her magnificent, sweeping portrait of the king, his court, and his ladies.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1781
Category : France
ISBN : MSU:31293008609152

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The Age of Louis XIV. by Voltaire Pdf

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1071279965

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Le siècle de Louis XIV by Voltaire Pdf

Author : Will Durant,Ariel Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451647655

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The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant,Ariel Durant Pdf

The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

Author : William James Roosen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 141281667X

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The Age of Louis XIV by William James Roosen Pdf

William James Roosen has written the first general study of European diplomacy in the age of Louis XIV which is based on the actual practices and institutions of that era, rather than on the writing of early theoreticians. Though the seventeenth century may not have been a period of great innovations in international diplomacy, it provides us with an important illustration of the "workings of a system which was well suited to the gradually changing needs of its time" and which has been called "the best form of diplomacy ever developed." Dr. Roosen demonstrates both the obvious differences and the many similarities between diplomatic procedures and practices of the seventeenth century and the twentieth. Any student of diplomacy and international relations will gain valuable insight and understanding from this study of the early modern diplomatic personalities, institutions, and practices. One of Dr. Roosen's goals in writing this book has been to discover the relationships between the ideological and socioeconomic structures and the diplomatic personalities who have influenced modern diplomacy. Further, he supplies the only available study of the realities of diplomatic practices in seventeenth century Europe, and provides an excellent basis for comparison with twentieth century international relations, in the hope that "studying early modern diplomatic personalities, institutions and practices should increase our understanding of international relations today." There are chapters on "The States of Europe," "Kings and Ministers," "Ambassadors," "Second Class Diplomats," "A Typical Early Modern Embassy," "Information: Important Objective of Diplomatic Activity," and "The Variety of Diplomatic Duties.

Author : Peter Fuhring,Louis Marchesano,Remi Mathis,Vanessa Selbach
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064504

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A Kingdom of Images by Peter Fuhring,Louis Marchesano,Remi Mathis,Vanessa Selbach Pdf

Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:715676712

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Age of Louis XIV by Voltaire Pdf

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:494922214

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The Age of Louis XIV by Voltaire Pdf

Author : Will Durant,Ariel Durant
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000004736395

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The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant,Ariel Durant Pdf

An integrated narrative of all aspects of European history from 1648-1715 based on the clash between faith and reason.

Author : Laurence Bradford Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1041333646

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The Age of Louis XIV by Laurence Bradford Packard Pdf

Author : Kathryn Norberg,Sandra Rosenbaum
Publisher : Costume Society of America
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Design
ISBN : UCSD:31822041290461

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Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV by Kathryn Norberg,Sandra Rosenbaum Pdf

""Analyzing French fashion prints and what these images represent and reveal about the fashion and culture of the seventeenth-century."--Provided by publisher"--