over the Early Modern period. Officers of the Maison du Roi were directly responsible to the Grand maître de France (Chief Steward). Starting in the 16th...
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The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (French pronunciation: [lise lwi lə gʁɑ̃]), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée...
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The Accursed Kings (redirect from Le Roi de fer)
The Accursed Kings (French: Les Rois maudits [le ʁwa mo.di]) is a series of seven historical novels by French author Maurice Druon about the French monarchy...
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"Le bon roi Dagobert" (French for "The good king Dagobert") is a French satirical anti-monarchical and anti-clerical song written around 1787. It references...
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Choisy-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [ʃwazi lə ʁwa] ) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France...
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concessions. Henry was nicknamed Henri le Grand (the Great), and in France is also called le bon roi Henri (good king Henry) and le vert galant (The Green Gallant)...
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Le roi s'amuse (French pronunciation: [lə ʁwa samyz]; literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by...
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least that reminded me of it." The Histoire Militaire du Règne de Louis-le-Grand, Roi de France was intended as a replacement for the "official" biography...
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The grand appartement du roi is the King's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles. As a result of Louis Le Vau's envelope of Louis XIII’s château...
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Le Grau-du-Roi (French pronunciation: [lə ɡʁo dy ʁwa]; Occitan: Lo Grau dau Rei) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is the only...
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Souverain Maître d'hôtel du Roi'), until 1380, then becoming Grand Master of the Hotel of the King (French: Grand Maître d'hôtel du Roi), until 1463, before...
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Charles Sevin, marquis de (1726). Histoire Militaire du Règne de Louis-le-Grand, Roi de France. Huit tômes (in French). Vol. 6. Paris: Denis Mariette. pp...
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Brabant-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [bʁabɑ̃ lə ʁwa]) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in northeastern France. The priest and Encyclopédiste...
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Le roi Carotte (King Carrot) is a 4-act opéra-bouffe-féerie with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Victorien Sardou, after E. T. A. Hoffmann....
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Villeneuve-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [vilnœv lə ʁwa] ) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 13.7 km (8.5 mi) from the...
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Grand Hôtel Les Trois Rois (Hotel of the Three Kings) in Basel, until 1986 usually identified by its German-language name, Hotel Drei Könige, is often...
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in Louis XIII's chateau. Owing largely to the discomfort of the grand appartement du roi and to the construction of the Hall of Mirrors, Louis XIV began...
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Domine salvum fac regem (redirect from Grand Dieu Sauve le Roi)
for the coronation of King François I in 1515. It was put to music as a grand motet by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, François Couperin, Henry Desmarest...
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Sevin de Quincy, Charles (1726). Histoire Militaire du Règne de Louis-le-Grand, Roi de France. Huit tômes (in French). Paris: Denis Mariette. Retrieved...
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in 1723, and Louis Le Normand, who became director of the Potager du roi after the death of his brother François, replanted the Grand Carré with herbs and...
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Les Granges-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [le ɡʁɑ̃ʒ lə ʁwa] ) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. Inhabitants...
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Order of Ouissam Alaouite (section Grand cordon)
"SM le roi reçoit le premier ministre portugais et le décore du grand cordon du ouissam alaouite". maparchives.ma. Retrieved 23 March 2024. "Le roi Hassan...
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he was hoping to create something like Offenbach's successful 'grand fantaisie' Le roi Carotte. According to Victorin de Joncières, Chabrier had confided...
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The Grand-Place (French: [ɡʁɑ̃ plas]; "Grand Square"; also used in English) or Grote Markt (Dutch: [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt] ; "Big Market") is the central square...
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Forming a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi, the grand appartement de la reine served as the residence of three Queens of France:...
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The Romain du Roi (French for "King's roman") was a typeface developed in France beginning in 1692. The name refers to Louis XIV who commissioned the...
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Ubu Roi (French: [yby ʁwa]; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris...
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a Sin and Le Roi de Thessalie (The Romance of a German Court) were published by Remington & Co in 1886; an alternative translation of Le Roi de Thessalie...
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The Bâtiments du Roi (French pronunciation: [bɑtimɑ̃ dy ʁwa], 'King's Buildings') was a division of the Maison du Roi ('King's Household') in France under...
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Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (1769). Histoire de François Premier: roi de France, dit le grand roi et le père des lettres (in French). Vol. Tome cinquieme. Paris:...
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