Polska premiera «Mieszczanina szlachcicem» w roku 1687 by Julian Lewański

“…The Polish aristocrat was not only well familiar with France and its culture, but also regularly exchanged letters with Louis XIV, who considered him one of the most eminent politicians in Poland. …”
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Les manuscrits de l’abbé de Castries dans la collection Gaignières : une donation exceptionnelle ? by Sarah Héquette

“…As for Gaignières, a renowned collector of the reign of Louis XIV, he built up a collection of more than 5,000 items, including nearly 1,100 manuscripts, and thus preserved the memory of the elites of the medieval and modern eras. …”
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RE-WRITE AND RE-CREATE THE FRENCH “BALLET DU TEMPS” (1654): KNOWLEDGE, HISTORICAL SOURCES, AND CREATIVE STRATEGIES by Christophe ALVAREZ

“…This article discusses the author’s process of reconstructing the “Ballet du Temps”, one of the great court ballets of the French 17th century, danced by King Louis XIV in 1654, which has remained partially copied by Philidor. …”
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Bossuet face à La Vallière : la topique de la vanité, entre enjeux religieux et enjeux politiques by Nicolas Pelleton

“…Nous voulons analyser les motifs de la vanité et du mépris du monde dans le Carême du Louvre et dans le Sermon pour la profession de La Vallière dans une perspective à la fois topique et énonciative. La liaison de Louis XIV et de La Vallière pose un double problème religieux et politique. …”
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The duality of service: between honour and humiliation, between primary and secondary functions by Sternberg, G

“…In place well before Louis XIV, these acts occurred in sub-royal as well as in royal settings; in the former, a more complicated perception of service emerges, of a humiliating task as well as a ‘prestige fetish’. …”

Putrajaya and the French connection by Mohd. Ali, Noor Azizi

“…Another administration centre of the sort, Versailles of France is an example of an architectural grandeur designed for an absolute monarch Louis XIV. It is resplendent as the prime example of the French baroque style. …”
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Ett barockt störningsmoment i franskklassicismen by Carin Franzén

“…From the perspective of French literary history, the Baroque is often conceived of as a disordered predecessor to the rational order of the Classical period associated with the “Age of Louis XIV” (1643–1715). In such a context, Deshoulières’s idylls, ”Les Moutons” (1677) and ”Le Ruisseau” (1685), both published in Le Mercure galant, could be read as baroque disruptors due to their place in a specific Epicurean vein within the French classical period that undermines its dominating rationalism. …”
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Diplomacy and Noble Culture: the 10 th Admiral of Castile and the Extraordinary Embassy of the Duke of Gramont in Madrid by Cristina Agüero Carnerero

“… The marriage of Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain sanctioned the end of the Franco-Spanish war (1635-1659). …”
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Les jeux d’eau du parc de Saint-Cloud. Des premières créations à la magnificence du parc mise en scène par Étienne Allegrain by Solveig d’Aboville

“…In the late seventeenth century, the younger brother of Louis XIV, Philippe d’Orléans, continued this dynamic, but on a much larger scale, making gushing water the main spring of garden design, taking advantage of both its decorative character and its capacity to symbolise the owner’s power. …”
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Det orientalske despotis afvikling i Montesquieus Lettres persanes by Knut Ove Eliassen, Anne Fastrup

“…Montesquieu’s epistolary novel, Persian Letters, is often presented as a satire of the mores of the French under the reign of Louis XIV, and an early example of what became a well-established literary trope: the de-familiarizing perspective of the foreign visitor. …”
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Les effigies sculptées d’Henri IV à Toulouse au xviie siècle by Sophie Fradier

“…The stakes of such artistic ventures have already been studied for Louis XIV, whereas other reigns have aroused less curiosity. …”
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Falanxi wenxue [La Littérature française] (1923) et le 4 Mai : historiographie, édition et modernité by Yang Zhen

“…Yuan Changying appreciates Louis XIV and has little taste for the spirit of freedom carried by Romanticism. …”
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Skänka hovet heder och lustre by Maria Schildt

“…Courtly entertainment in early modern Northern Europe largely copied French models, yet, despite the important role opera had as one of the most emblematic expressions of the court of Louis XIV, French operas were rarely performed outside France and the Low Countries. …”
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Nouvelle rhétorique et éducation. Le cas du Télémaque de Fénelon by Françoise Collinet

“…D’autre part, les commentateurs s’accordent à identier une intention persuasive nettement circonscrite : réformer le comportement du petit-fils de Louis XIV. La présente contribution se propose d’étudier les stratégies argumentatives utilisées par ce Bildungsroman ad usum delfini. …”
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Visiter Versailles sous l’Empire et la Restauration : musée, palais ou lieu de mémoire ? by Charles-Éloi Vial

“…Some were looking for vestiges of a lost world or were seeking to nurture their nostalgia, while others on the contrary already saw the palace as a museum of French art or a memorial to the glory of Louis XIV. For a small minority of people, Versailles and its domain, in particular Trianon, remained a place linked to current political events, intended to serve as a residence for the court of the Emperor or that of the restored Bourbons. …”
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Pleins feux sur l’auteur : l’Institution du prince du Sr des Yveteaux, libelle d’action ou de réaction ? by Bernard Teyssandier

“…Pour autant, quelles furent les raisons qui prévalurent à la fabrique de ce miroir ou plutôt de cet anti-miroir, puisque cette Institution censée répondre à une commande d’État, ambitionne d’instruire un roi mineur (Louis XIV) à partir d’attaques professées contre son propre père (Louis XIII) ? …”
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El Panegírico al duque de Lerma. Trascendencia de un modelo gongorino (1617-1705) by Jesús Ponce Cárdenas

“…Inspired by the epideictic verses of Claudian, starting in 1629 the Gongorian model prompted a series of imitations among cultist authors: the Panegyric on the Duke of Alcalá, viceroy of Naples (1629) by Salcedo Coronel; the Panegyric on Taddeo Barberini, prince of Palestrina (1631) by Gabriel del Corral; the Panegyric portrait of Charles of Austria (1633) by Gabriel Bocángel; the Panegyric on the Admiral of Castile (1638) by Calderón de la Barca; the Panegyric on the birth of the Marquis of Montalbán (1650) by Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, and the Short panegyric on Louis XIV (1705) by Lorenzo de las Llamosas. The study generally highlights the rhetorical and poetic keys to these variations on a now little-known laudatory genre, and the Gongorian imitatio practised by the six authors listed. …”
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Vers une synthèse vocale du français classique à l’aide du logiciel ©KALI by Philippe Caron, Michel Morel

“…This paper deals with the complex issue of the pronunciation of French during the period of King Louis XIV. That question is a keypoint for actors and singers, who need to know how the French language was pronounced in that period. …”
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Gypsothèque du musée du Louvre. Les apports de la restauration à la datation des tirages en plâtre anciens by Élisabeth Le Breton

“…Dating back to the sixteenth century, the tradition of making copies of the statues of classical antiquity by making plaster moulds of them, developed during the seventeenth century under the reign of Louis XIV and continued thereafter. The gypsothèque of the Louvre museum was created in December 2001 by the Ministry of Culture and brought together three major public collections coming from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts, the Institut d’art et d’archéologie at the rue Michelet and the Louvre itself. …”
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Lunéville au miroir de Versailles : reflets d’un regard distancié (1698-1737) by Thierry Franz

“…Duke Leopold (1679–1729), who trained at the imperial court in Vienna, and his wife, Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte d’Orléans (1676–1744), a niece of Louis XIV who grew up in Versailles, combined these cultural references in their practical aspirations, which were given material form in their apartments in the palaces of Nancy and, even more so, Lunéville. …”
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