Then, Louis XIV moved to Versailles, and the carpets were never installed. Starting tomorrow through February 8, roughly 30 ...

Beneath the vaulted glass roof of Paris’s Grand Palais, history is being unrolled. For the first time ever thirty two ...

Scientists have reexamined a mummified fragment of Louis XIV’s heart and now say the Sun King may have died from a chronic fungal infection rather than the gangrene long believed to have killed him ...

A quick search for “things to see in Paris” will provide you instantly with a list of world-famous buildings, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower. But topping those lists is, invariably, the Louvre, ...

‘The Sun King’ Louis XIV was likely the smelliest king in French history. It is said that he had a severe skin disease and, as a glutton who enjoyed eating meat, his sweat odor was particularly strong ...

The most magnificent and extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen are located 12 miles outside Paris at Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles. Louis identified, at a young age, with Apollo and ...

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Years ago while on a business trip to Europe, I visited Versailles, the storied palace monument to French King Louis XIV. It is magnificent, filled with excess of a former age, over the top but ...