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gavotte
gavotte , originally a peasant dance of the Gavots in upper Dauphiné, France. A type of circle dance characterized by lively, skipping steps, it was introduced at the court of Louis XIV and was used by Lully in his ballets and operas and by François Couperin and J. S. Bach in their key... Read more
James FitzJames Berwick, duke of
James FitzJames Berwick, duke of , 1670-1734, marshal of France; illegitimate son of King James II of England and Arabella Churchill, sister of the duke of Marlborough. Born and educated in France, he fought in Hungary against the Ottoman Turks. In 1687, his father, who had ascended the English thro... Read more
Louis
Louis 1682-1712, titular duke of Burgundy; grandson of King Louis XIV of France. He became heir to the throne on the death (1711) of his father, Louis the Great Dauphin. François de Fénelon was his tutor and wrote Télémaque for his use. Louis was the rallying point o... Read more
Peace of the Pyrenees
Peace of the Pyrenees 1659, treaty ending the warfare between France and Spain that, continuing after the Peace of Westphalia, had been complicated by French intervention in the revolt of the Catalans (1640-52) and by Spanish intervention in the Fronde . Together with the Peace of Westphalia, it m... Read more
Mary of Modena
Mary of Modena , 1658-1718, queen consort of James II of England; daughter of Alfonso IV, duke of Modena. Her marriage (1673) to James, then duke of York, was brought about through the influence of Louis XIV of France. Mary was a devout Roman Catholic and therefore unpopular in Protestant England.... Read more
Peace of Utrecht
Peace of Utrecht series of treaties that concluded the War of the Spanish Succession . It put an end to French expansion and signaled the rise of the British Empire. By the treaty between England and France (Apr. 11, 1713), Louis XIV recognized the English succession as established in the house of... Read more
Triple Alliance
Triple Alliance in European history, any of several coalitions. 1 The Triple Alliance of 1668 was formed by the Netherlands, England, and Sweden against France after Louis XIV had invaded the Spanish Netherlands in the War of Devolution . Largely because of the initiative of the Dutch statesman ... Read more
Trianon
Trianon , two small châteaux in the park of Versailles , Seine-et-Oise dept., N France. The Grand Trianon was built by J. H. Mansart in 1687 for Louis XIV; Napoleon I sometimes used it as a retreat. The Petit Trianon was built in 1762 by J. A. Gabriel for Louis XV. It was a favorite residence... Read more
Treaty of Ryswick
Treaty of Ryswick 1697, the pact that ended the War of the Grand Alliance . Its signers were France on one side and England, Spain, and the Netherlands on the other. It was a setback for Louis XIV , who kept Strasbourg but lost most other conquests made after 1679. Commercial concessions were gra... Read more
Alsace
Alsace , Ger. Elsass, region and former province, E France. It is separated from Germany by a part of the Rhine River. It comprises the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, and the Territory of Belfort (a department created after the Franco-Prussian War when the rest of Alsace was annexed by German... Read more

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Louis XIV (France) (1638–1715; Ruled 1643–1715)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World LOUIS XIV (FRANCE) (1638 – 1715; ruled 1643 – 1715) LOUIS XIV (FRANCE) (1638 – 1715; ruled 1643 – 1715), king of...
Louis XIV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Louis XIV Louis XIV (1638-1715) was king of France from 1643 to 1715. He brought the French monarchy to its peak of absolute power and made France the dominant power in Europe. His reign is also associated with the greatest age of French culture...
Louis XIII (France) (1601–1643; Ruled 1610–1643)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...1643), king of France. The historical reputation of Louis XIII has been overshadowed...and successor, Louis XIV (ruled 1643...credited for bringing France from its sorry state...history has enshrined Louis XIV as the French king...
Louis XV (France) (1710–1774; Ruled 1715–1774)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...ruled 1715 – 1774) LOUIS XV (FRANCE) (1710 – 1774; ruled 1715 – 1774), king of France. Louis, duc d'Anjou, was the second...and great-grandson of Louis XIV (ruled 1643 – 1715...
Louis XV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...The foreign policy of Louis XV, under the direction...the principle that France could not afford more wars after the reign of Louis XIV and that cordial relations...the personal rule of Louis XV it might be said that France had two foreign policies...
Saint-Simon, Louis De Rouvroy (1675–1755)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...1755), duke and peer of France, whose memoirs depict...politics during the reign of Louis XIV and the regency. Saint...Court and Courtiers ; Louis XIV (France) ; Versailles . BIBLIOGRAPHY...Sources Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy. Les additions...
Louis period styles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Louis period styles 1610-1793...architecture that established France as a leading influence in the decorative arts. Louis XIV During the reign of Louis XIII...classical dignity of the period of Louis XIV (1643-1715). The Louis...
Rulers of France since 987
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1589-1610 Louis XIII, son of Henry IV, 1610-43 Louis XIV, son of Louis XIII, 1643-1715 Louis XV, great-grandson of Louis XIV, 1715-74 Louis XVI, grandson of Louis XV, 1774...
France
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...expelled from France. Louis XI restored royal authority...beginning of the Renaissance in France and the struggle with the...Richelieu and Mazarin led France to victory in the Thirty...1618–48). Louis XIV's court at Versailles...
Kings of France
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Kings of France Dates King Relationship 1...Capets from 987 to 1322 2 Louis XVII , son of Louis XVI...Henri IV 1643–1715 Louis XIV Son of Louis XIII 1715...Louis XV Great-grandson of Louis XIV 1774–93 2 Louis...

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Louis XIV
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Louis XIV (1638–1715) King of France (1643–...MAZARIN chief minister. Louis survived the FRONDE...policies; after 1700 France suffered a series...and at his death Louis XIV left a series of political...
Louis XV
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Louis XV (1710–74) King of France (1715–74), a great grandson of LOUIS XIV . During his minority...Fleury's death in 1743 Louis decided to rule without...King of POLAND , and France intervened in the War...
France
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the HUNDRED YEARS WAR . France did not emerge as a permanently...VALOIS and BOURBON dynasties France rose to contest European...notably in the wars of LOUIS XIV . In the 18th century...under NAPOLEON I , when France became the dominant political...
France, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History FRANCE, RELATIONS WITH FRANCE, RELATIONS WITH. In the seventeenth...Louisiana in honor of their king, Louis XIV, who had established French supremacy on the European continent. France was soon contending directly with England...
France, Christianity in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...the Albigensians in S. France, the Albigensian Crusades...the Papacy, however, France was raided for benefices...post-Tridentine piety. Louis XIV (reigned 1643–...orders were expelled from France and in 1905 the Church...
Louis Quatorze
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Louis Quatorze. Style of French Baroque and Classical architecture of the reign of King Louis XIV (1643–1715), beginning in...de-Grâce, the Institut de France, and the east front of the Louvre, all...
Feuillée, Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Feuill é e, Louis ( b . Mane, Basses-Alpes, France, 1660; d . Marseilles, France, 18 April 1732) astronomy, botany . Feuill...coasts, returning to Brest by 27 August 1711. Louis XIV placed in his care an observatory built at...
Bourbon
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...became King of France as HENRY IV...His heirs ruled France uninterruptedly until 1792: Louis XIII (ruled 1610...43), Louis XIV (ruled 1643...Bourbon King of France, was a member...family. In 1700 Louis XIV's second grandson...
Spanish Succession, War of the
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...signed (1698) between LOUIS XIV and William, that Spain...would be shared out between France, Austria, and Joseph...Ferdinand. When he died, Louis and William signed a second...his whole empire to Louis XIV's second grandson, the...
La Salle Explorations
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Salle traveled to France and laid Frontenac...enthusiastic King Louis XIV, who appointed...He returned to France in 1677 to seek...Mississippi watershed for France and named the new...in honor of King Louis XIV. During his return...

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Louis XIV and religion.(king of France)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the Cevennes regions of southern France. Led by rebels known as the Camisards...Calvinists declined dramatically after Louis XIV's death in 1715. A dissident...also came into existence in France at this time. Louis XIV treated them extremely harshly...
It was good to be 'Sun King': With France in good stead, Louis XIV could focuson romance
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/29/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...35 Ah, to have been Louis XIV, King of France, passionately doted on by...and her doltish husband, Louis XVI, who eventually had...French revolutionaries, Louis XIV (1638-1715) lived in a France less roiled by social and...
The legacy of Louis XIV. (From Past to Present).(king of France)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; When Louis XIV died in 1715, judgment...and negative views. France's population at...state in Europe. Louis left a territory larger...Europe. The era of Louis XIV was viewed as a golden...The prestige of France's language and culture...
Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France. By Lynn Wood Mollenauer. Magic in History. University...analogous use of judicial records from the France of Louis XIV to reconstruct what she calls "the criminal magical...
Letters and memoirs: Louis XIV Instituted the first modern postal system. Every week, riders left Paris on fixed days at and at fixed times, bound for destinations throughout France.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...From this moment on, France produced a series of writers...husband to southeastern France. Sevigne's letters chronicle...most glorious years of Louis XIV's monarchy. They portray...Above all, Sevigne's Louis XIV was every inch the Sun...
Culture in the cities: provincial academies during the early years of Louis XIV's reign.(introduction in French)(17th century France)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...seventeenth-century France. (1) Examining...in early modern France, historians no longer depict Louis XIV, ably assisted...seventeenth century in France as a time when the...absolutist" model of Louis XIV's cultural politics...
A king at four: not long after Anne of Austria posed with her son Louis, Louis XIII died and the young dauphin became king of France.(Louis XIV)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Louis XIV WAS ONE OF EUROPE...year rule, France became the leading...rosy in 1643 when Louis became king at...provinces throughout France, the peasants...months later, Louis XIII died. Because...Austria, Louis XIV's mother, who...
The Affair of the Poisons.(Athenais: The Real Queen of France, Louis XIV)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History Review; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...The Real Queen of France **** Lisa Hilton...0 349 11572 9 pb Louis XIV **** Anthony...bitten people at Louis XIV's court were prepared...the real queen of France', a compliment...queen's death, Louis could not possibly...
Master of his own house.(King Louis XIV of France)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...To get them off the streets, Louis began establishing "hospitals...orderly and more productive, but Louis XIV's desire to pursue two great passions would soon threaten France's new stability. Louis was eager to pursue splendor...
Coercion, conversion and counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 484 words ; ...conversion and counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France. McCullough, Roy L. BRILL 2007...rebellion, and resistance under Louis XIV. In particular, the text explores...deciding to use coercive force; Louis XIV's reliance on his standing army...