Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vincent S. Aoki of Honolulu; Geoffrey T. Chalmers of Gambier, Ohio; Roger L. Clifton of Longmeadow, Mass.; Henry C. Dyer of St. Louis, Mo.; Harry K. Eldridge of Albany, N. Y.; Sigo Falk of Pittsburgh, Pa.; John W. Fowler of Naugatuck, Conn.; Robert H. Jaffe of Jamaica, L. I.; John...
Democratic King. Louis was 18 when Madame de Beauvais. one of his mother's ladies in waiting, waylaid him as he was coming from his bath, and seduced him. After that, Louis was insatiable. According to his sister-in-law, "all women, peasants, chambermaids, servants' daughters, women of...
But the door to his court remained wide open. Since Louis insisted that his noblemen live there, housing was a nightmare. With 10.000 people living in the chateau at Versailles, it was as crowded as a slum. The bearer of many a celebrated name had to be content with a...
Louis was lavish and was served by 500 attendants, whom he boarded and housed. The money, of course, came from the people. Versailles' cost swallowed three out of every five francs collected in taxes, and nobody will ever know the price of building it. When Frangois Mansard, the King...
It was a century of fascinating contrasts. Literature nourished. Corneille, Racine, Moliere, La Fontaine turned out their masterpieces; Pascal wrote his Pensees, Descartes his Discourse on Method. Medicine, meanwhile, was in a parlous state. In one year, Louis XIII was bled 47 times, got 212 enemas. Louis XIV got the...