Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the big, bright, magnetic pomp of the French monarchy at its peak. Behind the ...
In the autumn of 1683, in a candlelit chapel at the Palace of Versailles, a late-night marriage ceremony took place. The groom was none other than the ruler of France, Louis XIV, 45, also known as the ...