The machine was designed at the request of the French king Louis XIV—the monarch who commissioned ... later dissected and taxidermied upon its death. “As it was studied by scientists, it ...

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.

behind French King Louis XIV. She died at age 96 on September 8, 2022. She was married to Philip Mountbatten from 1947 until his death in April 2021. The marriage of 73 years produced four ...

as it was with King Louis XIV of France, his accretion to an absolute leader was not solely at his behest as he was barely five years old when he became king at the death of his father ...

STEPHEN SMITH, the presenter of A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of ...

This article studies a set of 199 educational playing cards published in 1644, commissioned by Cardinal Jules Mazarin as an educational device for the five-year-old Louis XIV upon his coming ... and ...