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Louis XIV, France's Sun King The king lost his temper only three times in public during his 72-year reign, and each occasion was incited by insupportable boorishness or cowardice. He was aware when a line had been crossed. Once he said: " I would praise you more if you praised me less." [to Racine] Jean Baptiste Colbert, Louis Xiv Versailles, Charles Ii Of England, Tragic Love Stories, Chateau Versailles, London History, French History, Historical Painting, Unique Buildings
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Louis XIV: patron, but no saint

[This is the first of an occasional series of posts considering aspects of the remarkable personality of Louis XIV, France's Sun King] The king wants to go Saturday to Versailles, but God appears unwilling, because of the impossibility of readying the buildings to receive him, due to the prodigious mortality among the workmen. Cartloads of corpses are carried off nightly, as if from a charity hospital. The grim convoys are hidden so as not to terrify the worksite, and not to besmirch that…

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