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    Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first...
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    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was...
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    King Charles XIV John of Sweden. It was also the royal family of Norway between 1818 and 1905. Its founder was born in Pau in southern France as Jean Bernadotte...
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    The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze (/ˌluːi kæˈtɔːrz, - kəˈ-/ LOO-ee ka-TORZ, -⁠ kə-, French: [lwi katɔʁz] ), also called French classicism, was the...
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    XIV (1638–1715), the Bourbon monarch of the Kingdom of France, was the son of King Louis XIII of France and Queen Anne. The descendants of Louis XIV are...
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    Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Charles' half-sister Maria Theresa and Louis XIV of France. Shortly before...
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    other. However, Louis XIV decided to use Marie Louise to instead forge a link with Spain and made her marry the invalid Charles II of Spain, the Dauphin's...
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    a balustrade. Bed of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles André-Charles Boulle Charles Le Brun Jean Bérain the Elder Jean Bérain the Younger Philippe...
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    him. Louis XIV kept it hanging at Versailles. It has since become the most recognisable portrait of the king. On the death of King Charles II of Spain...
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    Philippe-Charles, Duke of Anjou (5 August 1667 – 10 July 1671) was the fifth child and second son of King Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain...
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    remarkable of all French cabinetmakers". Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) recommended him to Louis XIV of France, the "Sun King" (r. 1643–1715)...
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    siècle du Louis XIV et la rʹegence. pp. 93–94. "French History in New Orleans". www.neworleans.com. Retrieved 2020-10-28. Vatout, Jean (1836). Le chateau...
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    private equity investment firm. Prince Jean-Christophe was born in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. He is the son of Charles, Prince Napoléon and his first wife...
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    commissioners from the Committee of Public Safety — Jean-Baptiste Harmand [fr], Jean-Baptiste Charles Matthieu and Jacques Reverchon [fr] — but they failed...
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    of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the organization of the country's politics and markets...
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    The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (category Works about Louis XIV)
    Musketeers as he perceives the young king Louis XIV as weak-willed. He resolves to aid the exiled Charles II to retake the throne of England, unaware that...
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    Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑːrtrə/, US also /ˈsɑːrt/; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist...
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    Jean Ranc (28 January 1674 – 1 July 1735) was a French painter, mainly active in portraiture. He trained under his father Antoine Ranc and his father's...
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    But Louis XIV was also inspired by Vaux-le-Vicomte, and he recruited its authors for his own projects. Louis XIV replaced Fouquet with Jean-Baptiste Colbert...
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    by André-Charles Boulle. The first Duke of Antin, Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, director of the Bâtiments du Roi, wrote to Louis XIV: "I was...
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    The Château Louis XIV is a château constructed between 2008 and 2011 in the commune of Louveciennes in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region...
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    of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time". Le Brun was a...
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    where he stayed twelve years. In the same year, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (French: Charles XIV Jean), future Marshal of France and then King of Sweden...
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    served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. He was made a cardinal in 1641. After serving as...
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    XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling...
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    1685. The last war waged by Louis XIV proved to be one of the most important to dynastic Europe. In 1700, King Charles II of Spain, a Habsburg, died without...
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    Louise de La Vallière (category Peers created by Louis XIV)
    Lair 1907, p. 205. Petitfils, Jean (2006). "Louis XIV Intime 1661–1679". Louis XIV : La Gloire et les épreuves [Louis XIV: The Glory and the Hardships]...
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    end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), in which the dying Charles II of Spain...
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    Fürstenberg; and as Charles Le Brun (in the Louvre). Bust of Charles LeBrun, (1676) (Louvre) Louis XIV (1680), Museum of Narbonne Jean-Baptiste Colbert (the...
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    September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday)...
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