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Party like 1660 – Page 23 – Titillating tidbits from the court of the Sun King

Chaise à Porteurs

Chaise à Porteurs aka sedan chairs were an incredibly useful mode of transportation at the court of Louis XIV and especially at Versailles, where the distances between buildings were, and…

Révolte des Lustucru

Louis XIV had to face his first revolt after the Fronde in 1662, one year after he took the reins of government into his own hands. The county of Boulonnais…

Ten rules of etiquette for your Versailles visit….

What could be worse than strolling Versailles and running into a noble, or even worse, the King himself and not knowing what to do? It might lead to one being…

La journée des Dupes

The journée des Dupes aka Day of the Dupes is an important event in French History. Actually it was not just one day, but stretched out over several days and…

Mistress versus Queen, or how Louise de La Vallière got into a carriage race with the Queen of France…

1667. The year the War of Devolution began and Louis XIV showed his great military power for the first time. Besieged city after city falls into the hands of the…

L’ordre du Saint-Esprit

The Ordre du Saint-Esprit – Order of the Holy Spirit – was the senior chivalric order of France. It was not the oldest one, but the most prestigious one and…

Even a Sun King is not safe from being beaten up… by his brother.

Boys will be boys, brothers will be brothers, and no matter how great the love for each other, they will play pranks on each other and they will quarrel. This was not different as Louis XIV and his brother Philippe were children, yet in their case every little quarrel could lead to the outcry of a Kingdom and could be…

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