Word: xvi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damage was done. But ordinary visitors will not be allowed to scuff across the room's Savonnerie carpet, made for Louis XIV, or sit in its superbly upholstered chairs. From behind ropes the public will view these and the Sevres porcelain, the Boucher tapestries, the rich Louis XVI paneling, the rock-crystal chandeliers, the china figures so delicate that dust is not wiped off them but whiffed away by a gently pumped bellows...
...played war games as a child. His mother even painted a charming picture of him at the age of 20 months, beating a toy drum (see cut, p. 20). On his father's side he was descended from at least five generals, one of whom served under Louis XVI. His father, Zephirin Auguste Joseph Gamelin, became Controller General of the French Army after he had been gravely wounded at Solferino, during Napoleon Ill's fight against the Austrians...
...Last fall English Actor Robert Morley, unknown in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame in the title role of Oscar Wilde, cinema fame as Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette. Last month English Actor Lawrence Olivier, no great name in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame playing opposite Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, cinema fame as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Unlike Morley, Olivier became a terrific matinee idol to boot...
...LIFE AND DEATH OF Louis XVI-Saul K. Padover - Appleton-Century...
Synonym for royalty's sins and sufferings in the French Revolution has long been meddlesome Marie Antoinette. But it was her gluttonous, well-meaning husband, Louis XVI-to his courtiers "that great hog"-whose consistent blunders, according to Author Padover, mark the consistent advances of the Revolution, and make him the king-cog of the revolutionary turnover. Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king...