It wasn’t until his successor, King Louis XIV, took the throne that Versailles was expanded to become a grand palace for the ...

the opulent Palace of Versailles is now a magnificent testament to the lavishness of French royalty — and a symbol of the inequality that incited the French Revolution. King Louis XIV (the "Sun ...

He has not discovered new sources for the history of the time of Louis XIV., but he has gone carefully over the extant records of the reign of the Grand Monarque, and from them has selected ...

The complex was commissioned by Louis XIV, who moved the nation’s government to Versailles in 1682 and wanted a palace to match the glory of his reign. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

"Louis XIV was a bit of an architect," explained Mathieu da Vinha, the scientific director of the Research Centre of the Palace of Versailles. "In Paris he couldn't really enlarge the palaces ...

Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France's Ancien Régime, they were ...

in Versailles, where they've always been so central. SULLIVAN: In fact, even before there was a palace, the French king, Louis XIII, first built a hunting lodge here, where he'd come to escape the ...

PARIS — The Palace of Versailles is simply beautiful at 393 ... and later, his son, King Louis XIV, built a palace. But King Louis XIII didn't stop with just the palace. He built what has ...