An exceptional decorative ensemble, one of the largest ever created for a royal palace, it will be on display for a few days ...

Certain kings have left their names and the titles they held, which show the connection between their kingly reigns and their power as the leaders during this time. Often, the titles of kings describe ...

The most magnificent and extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen are located 12 miles outside Paris at Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles. Louis identified, at a young age, with Apollo and ...

Scientists have reexamined a mummified fragment of Louis XIV’s heart and now say the Sun King may have died from a chronic fungal infection rather than the gangrene long believed to have killed him ...

Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the big, bright, magnetic pomp of the French monarchy at its peak. Behind the ...

However, the death of Colbert marks a turning point, prompting the king to eventually choose Versailles as his main residence. The former grand dining hall was left to fall into neglect, enduring the ...

300 years ago today (Sept. 1, 2015), King Louis XIV perished, ending 77 years of rule. The Sun King had a tremendous impact on global culture as we know it today, from diamonds to fashion marketing to ...