A recent invitation to the Getty Center for a press preview of their new exhibit “Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV” (on exhibit through May 1, 2016) had me very excited for reasons beyond the sheer ...

Louis XIV, like politicians of today, knew the value of controlling his public image. Throughout his over 70-year reign, the French king directed a self-portrait campaign in medals — the petite ...

The outspoken comments the front-runner on the GOP side of the U.S. Presidential race echo as far as the streets and alleyways of my corner of the French capital these days. And this is a city with a ...

to take the reins of power himself. In his youth, there had been uprisings by landed noblemen from their provincial estates launched against the crown. In order to prevent future uprisings, Louis XIV ...

A quick search for “things to see in Paris” will provide you instantly with a list of world-famous buildings, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower. But topping those lists is, invariably, the Louvre, ...

VERSAILLES, France — In curator Béatrix Saule’s extensive exhibition Le Roi Est Mort (“The King Is Dead”), the Palace of Versailles is presenting a shaggy-dog narrative about the death of Louis XIV.

If anybody wants to explain the extensive, intricate and French governmental aid system for cinema and TV, they could do worse than watch “Versailles,” an English-language Canal Plus Creation ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. The Nature of Early Modern Propaganda ...