Louis XIV, the Sun King (1638-1715)

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King Louis XIV received his minister for the first time in 1661.
http://www.maryevans.com/history/Louis-XIV-King-of-France-10447770

Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle-Île, Vicomte de Melun et Vaux was Minister of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661

Jean-Baptiste Colbert,Sire de Vandières and Cernay was the First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

King Louis XIV dressed as the sun for a theatre performance at Versailles
http://www.maryevans.com/history/10682394

 

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The daily life of the king : Louis XIV of France and Navarre
https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/day-life-louis-xiv

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Christiaan Huygens presented his pendulum clock to King Louis XIV.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-huygens-presenbts-his-pendulum-clock-to-louis-xiv-104020412.html

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Guided by the principle "I am the State", King Louis XIV centralized authority.

 

[An Ard Ri]

Guided by the principle "I am the State", King Louis XIV centralized authority.

It reportedly took place at the the Parlement of Paris on the 13th of April 1655 ,the site is now occupied by the Palais de Justice, Paris.

Louis XIV leaving the Parlement de Paris amid much pomp

 

[An Ard Ri]

The visit by Louis XIV to l'abbaye Royale de Longchamp in the 1640's.
The visit started an annual pilgrimage to the Abbey which last up until its closure in 1790.

 

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Louis XIV in 1685, the year he revoked the Edict of Nantes.

 

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Louis XIV (seated) with his son le Grand Dauphin (to the left), his grandson Louis, Duke of Burgundy (to the right), his great-grandson Louis Duke of Anjou, and Madame de Ventadour, Anjou's governess, who commissioned this painting.

 

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The Worlds Longest Reigning Monarch -Louis XIV who died aged 76 in September 1715.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

King Louis XIV of France ordered the construction of the Palace of Versailles.

King Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Chateau of Versailles

King Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Chateau of Versailles. Illustration for Chroniques des Grands Siecles de la France by Guillaume Appolinaire (Jack, 1910).

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[An Ard Ri]

King Louis XIV of France ordered the construction of the Palace of Versailles.

King Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Chateau of Versailles

King Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Chateau of Versailles. Illustration for Chroniques des Grands Siecles de la France by Guillaume Appolinaire (Jack, 1910).

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Louis XIV first came to Versailles in October 1641,he was the Dauphin at the time and he was sent there by his father as there was a smallpox outbreak in Paris.
The next documented visit to the Hunting Lodge came in 1651 when the king was accompanied by his mother Queen Anne ,brother and Cardinal Mazarin .
In 1661 he ordered work to begin on enlarging the Hunting Lodge and this continued over the next 50 years of his reign.
At Versailles he could keep an eye on the nobility and never forgot they way the poor treated his mother Queen Anne endured during her Regency.

Versailles around 1652