#LudovicusMagnus (Louis the Great)
Marble bust of #LouisXIV in Bernini style / Vaux le Vicomte
Louis XIV was invited to Vaux for a house warming party by Nicolas Fouquet. While there he bacame jeaulous of Fouquet's Chateau. In the coming weeks he arrested Fouquet on trumped-up charges.
He was put in jail without a trial ,after the trial they found no real evidence of any wrong doing, never the less Louis XIV wanted him jailed for life! He used his planners,architects,and landscapers to build Versailles.
This is the ORIGINAL Versailles.
This photo was made here.
The website of vaux le vicomte.
Louis XIV (baptized as Louis-Dieudonné, "Louis God-given") (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister (Premier minister), the Italian Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis remained on the throne until his death in September 1715, four days before his seventy-seventh birthday. His reign lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, the longest documented for any European monarch to date.
Louis XIV is popularly known as the Sun King (French: le Roi Soleil) because of the idea that, just as the planets revolve around the Sun, so too should France and the court revolve around him. As a result, he was commonly associated with Apollo Helios, the Greco-Roman god of the Sun. Largely due to his tutor, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Louis believed in the Divine Right of Kings. Bossuet preached that kings were appointed by God, but also had a responsibility to act as such.
#LudovicusMagnus (Louis the Great)
Marble bust of #LouisXIV in Bernini style / Vaux le Vicomte
Louis XIV was invited to Vaux for a house warming party by Nicolas Fouquet. While there he bacame jeaulous of Fouquet's Chateau. In the coming weeks he arrested Fouquet on trumped-up charges.
He was put in jail without a trial ,after the trial they found no real evidence of any wrong doing, never the less Louis XIV wanted him jailed for life! He used his planners,architects,and landscapers to build Versailles.
This is the ORIGINAL Versailles.
This photo was made here.
The website of vaux le vicomte.
Louis XIV (baptized as Louis-Dieudonné, "Louis God-given") (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister (Premier minister), the Italian Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis remained on the throne until his death in September 1715, four days before his seventy-seventh birthday. His reign lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, the longest documented for any European monarch to date.
Louis XIV is popularly known as the Sun King (French: le Roi Soleil) because of the idea that, just as the planets revolve around the Sun, so too should France and the court revolve around him. As a result, he was commonly associated with Apollo Helios, the Greco-Roman god of the Sun. Largely due to his tutor, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Louis believed in the Divine Right of Kings. Bossuet preached that kings were appointed by God, but also had a responsibility to act as such.