Word: xiv
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...LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith...
...LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith...
...LOUIS XIV by Will and Ariel Durant. 802 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Orations. In recent years Schuman lived in semiretirement at his family estate, poring over his rare books (among them the handwritten school manuscripts of Louis XIV) and penning his memoirs. Intimates say he was "very upset" by De Gaulle's opposition to Britain's entry into the Common Market; but he kept his silence...
...Louis XIV granted Le Brun the articles of nobility in 1662, and the road to Versailles was open. The King put Le Brun in charge of redecorating the Gallery of Apollo at the Louvre after the fire of 1661, then appointed him to decorate the great Versailles complex. The artist spent a decade designing the palace interiors, decorating the Hall of Mirrors and the Galleries of War and of Peace, planning the garden statuary and constructing the stairways. Tirelessly, he decorated the famous pavilions and chateau of Louis' Bismarckian minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the Parisian suburb of Sceaux...