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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 115, Issue 462) Peer-ReviewedTHE Nine Years War (1688-97) was the most intensive war fought by France before the eighteenth century, but it has also been one of the most overlooked and under-researched conflicts in French history. Received wisdom...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGEORGIA COWART is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Origins of Modern Musical Criticism: Quarrels over French and Italian Music, 1600-1750 (Ann Arbor: UMI Research...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 181, Issue 629)The reign of Louis XIV has come to stand for the power of absolute monarchy and Versailles has long been a byword for opulence. But have we lost sight of the actual artworks and objects produced under the patronage of...
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From:Notes (Vol. 78, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLes foyers artistiques a la fin du regne de Louis XIV (1682-1715): Musique et spectacles. Edited by Anne-Madeleine Goulet in collaboration with Remy Campos, Mathieu da Vinha, and Jean Duron. (Series "Epitome musical.")...
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From:Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 1 September 1686, Louis XIV welcomed the ambassadors of Phra Narai, King of Siam, in a great public audience at Versailles. Held in the sumptuous Hall of Mirrors, it was the most spectacular reception the Sun King...
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From:Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedContrary to the traditional interpretation that Louis XIV's cultural absolutism included the establishment of provincial academies under the direction of the Academie Francaise, this article argues that men of letters...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA certain style of burlesque ballet that thrived during the 1620s reveals a great deal about how dance can reflect power dynamics between the king and the nobility. The burlesque ballets often featured cross-dressing,...
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From:Biography (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLouis XIV Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. Antonia Fraser. Scarborough, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2006. 388 pp. $45.00. A biography examining the Sun King by looking at the women he loved. "I...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 59, Issue 5)The Sun King at Sea Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France,...
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From:Early Music (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe context of architecture and performance for social dance in the 1668 Feste de Versailles of Louis XIV provided, between art and nature, an exceptionally lovely atmosphere. One couple at a time would dance while...
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From:Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDavid J. Sturdy. Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 202. Cloth, $55.00; ISBN 0-312-21427-8. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-312-21428-6. This consideration of Louis XIV is representative of a veritable...
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From:Turkish Journal of Urology (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this study, the story of a part of significant inventions of medical devices and treatments, which abandoned to be forgotten between the dusty pages of history will be narrated. Key words: History of medicine;...
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From:Biography (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLouis XIV Louis XIV. Chronographie d'un regne. Christophe Levantal. 2 vols. Infolio, 2009. 1,054 pp. Euro65. Not history perhaps, but certainly a useful tool to historians: For eight years or so, Levantal tracked...
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From:Biography (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVoltaire Le Siecle de Louis XIV. Voltaire. Edition established, presented, and annotated by Jacqueline Hellegouarc'h and Sylvain Menant, with the collaboration of Philippe Bonnichon and Anne-Sophie Barrovecchio....
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From:Theological Studies (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCROWN, CHURCH, AND EPISCOPATE UNDER LOUIS XIV. By Joseph Bergin. New Haven: Yale University, 2004. Pp. xii + 544. $60. The author of The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661 (Yale University, 1996), Bergin now...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5914)Gerard Sabatier and Beatrix Saule, editors LE ROI EST MORT Louis XIV 1715 335pp. Tallandier. 44.90 [euro]. 979 10 210 1337 7 Remi Mathis, Vanessa Selbach, Louis Marchesano and Peter Fuhring, editors IMAGES...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5820)Alexandre Maral LE ROI-SOLEIL ET DIEU Essai sur la religion de Louis XIV 372pp. Perrin. 24 [euro]. 978 2 262 03519 8 Lucien Bely LES SECRETS DE LOUIS XIV Mysteres d'etat et pouvoir absolu 688pp....
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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 115, Issue 461) Peer-ReviewedIn his relatively short textbook on Louis XIV (London: Macmillan, 1998, pp. xxii+202. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]), David J. Sturdy provides a remarkably sure-footed guide to a long and eventful...
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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 118, Issue 478) Peer-ReviewedBy JOHN J. HURT (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. xvii + 217. 45 [pounds sterling]). FEW historians of Louis XIV escape unscathed from Professor Hurt's sustained attack on 'revisionism'. In one memorable...
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From:Biography (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLouis XIV La sante de Louis XIV. Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil. Stanis Perez. Paris: Ed. Champ Vallon, 2007. 410 pp. Euro26. The catalogue of Louis XIV's illnesses is impressive: small pox at 9, blennorrhea at 17,...