Louis XIV
Louis XIV
UK export bar placed on Louis XIV’s £7.5m table top
The decision was made in the hope that a buyer can be found to “save the” object “for the nation”
Booksreview
Remarkable new book reveals the dark side of the Sun King
'The Sun King at Sea' shows how Louis XIV, known for his long reign, and cultural and political power, was also a cruel slave-keeper
Coronavirusnews
Patrick Devedjian—French politician and driving force behind new museum dedicated to the Sun King—has died of coronavirus
Devedjian was leading plans for a museum project in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, about the reign of Louis XIV
Decadence of Sun King’s pleasure palace revealed at reopened museum near Versailles
Musée du Domaine Royal de Marly is dedicated to the château where Louis XIV partied with his favoured courtiers