Word: xiv
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...moral of this tale is "neomercantilism," the protection of one's home market against competition from abroad. The Schröder government has become quite shameless in this game, using its muscle in European councils as if it were the direct descendant of Louis XIV and his protectionist Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert...
...brush--and all the greater for painting without the attributes of greatness. Eighteenth century France was a fine incubator for pictorial grandeur, as in the history pieces of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Its sexual rhetoric--think of Boucher's pink and frothy shepherdesses--was peerless. Since the reign of Louis XIV, whose minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert had striven to connect the visual arts to the very essence of French gloire, every kind of official discourse had flourished in French painting and sculpture, as it did in the arts of Italy. But unofficial life--the relatively ordinary pleasures and utterances...
...What did the famous chef Le Grand Valtel do after Louis XIV asked for a doggie...