Author: Cecil Scott ForesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre
Author: Cecil Scott ForesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Louis XIV., King of France and Navarre, Etc. [With Portraits.].
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Author: Cecil Scott ForesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Louis Xiv
Author: C. S. ForesterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494068882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Louis XIV
Author: Louis XIV.A Kingdom of Images
Author: Peter FuhringPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064509
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
King of the World
Author: Philip ManselPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669092X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Louis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close. Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention. This lively work takes Louis outside Versailles and shows the true extent of his global ambitions, with stops in London, Madrid, Constantinople, Bangkok, and beyond. We witness the importance of his alliance with the Spanish crown and his success in securing Spain for his descendants, his enmity with England, and his relations with the rest of Europe, as well as Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We also see the king’s effect on the two great global diasporas of Huguenots and Jacobites, and their influence on him as he failed in his brutal attempts to stop Protestants from leaving France. Along the way, we are enveloped in the splendor of Louis’s court and the fascinating cast of characters who prostrated and plotted within it. King of the World is exceptionally researched, drawing on international archives and incorporating sources who knew the king intimately, including the newly released correspondence of Louis’s second wife, Madame de Maintenon. Mansel’s narrative flair is a perfect match for this grand figure, and he brings the Sun King’s world to vivid life. This is a global biography of a global king, whose power was extensive but also limited by laws and circumstances, and whose interests and ambitions stretched far beyond his homeland. Through it all, we watch Louis XIV progressively turn from a dazzling, attractive young king to a belligerent reactionary who sets France on the path to 1789. It is a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomizes the idea of le grand monarque.
Louis XIV King of France and of Navarre
Author: The History of the Life and Reign of Lewis XIV, King of France and Navarre
Author: James WhiteThe Life and History of Lewis XIV.
Author: Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre
Author: Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description