France Under Louis Xiv Le Grand Si Cle
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France Under Louis Xiv Le Grand Si Cle
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Author : Émile Bourgeois
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
France Under Louis Xiv Le Grand Si Cle written by Émile Bourgeois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with France categories.
Giant Of The Grand Si Cle
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Author : John A. Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-13
Giant Of The Grand Si Cle written by John A. Lynn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-13 with History categories.
An 'invisible giant', the seventeenth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army in depth, studying recruitment, composition, discipline, motivation, selection of officers, leadership, administration, logistics, weaponry, tactics, field warfare and siegecraft. The portrait that emerges differs from what current scholarship might have predicted. Instead of claiming that a 'military revolution' transformed warfare, Lynn stresses evolutionary change. This work also offers surprising insights into absolutism and the relationship between the monarchy and aristocracy. Questioning widely held assumptions about state formation and coercion, Lynn argues that this standing army was primarily devoted to border defence and only rarely to internal repression.
The Shaping Of Grand Strategy
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Author : Williamson Murray
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-14
The Shaping Of Grand Strategy written by Williamson Murray and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with History categories.
Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
Louis Xiv And The Age Of The Enlightenment
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Author : N. R. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Louis Xiv And The Age Of The Enlightenment written by N. R. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Enlightenment categories.
Sun King
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Author : David Lee Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Release Date : 1992
Sun King written by David Lee Rubin and has been published by Associated University Presses this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
This work is a selection of papers presented at the Folger Institute by an international collegium of scholars on the ascendancy of French culture during the reign of Louis XIV.
The French Wars 1667 1714
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Author : John A Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-06
The French Wars 1667 1714 written by John A Lynn and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with History categories.
Campaigns fought by Louis XIV, the Sun King, shaped the borders of European states, the destinies of royal dynasties, and even the patterns of absolutist government. This book presents the most authoritative yet accessible and succinct account of these all-important struggles available today, covering every aspect of the wars from decisions made by the king at his palace at Versailles to the life of the troops encamped in the field. Focusing on the French army, the greatest military force of the age, this tale of violence, victory, and victims balances siege and battle in a way that tells us much that is new about the Sun King and his adversaries.
Louis Xiv
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Author : Aurora von Goeth
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-06-30
Louis Xiv written by Aurora von Goeth and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A concise, straightforward biography of the seventeenth-century French monarch and his seventy-two-year reign. Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand—France’s self-styled “Sun King”—ruled France and its people, leaving his unique and permanent mark on history and shaping fashion, art, culture and architecture like none other before. This frank and concise book gives the reader a personal glimpse into the Sun King’s life and times as we follow his rise in power and influence: from a miraculous royal birth no one ever expected to the rise of king as absolute monarch, through the evolution of the glittering Château de Versailles, scandals and poison, four wars and many more mistresses . . . right up to his final days. Absolute monarch. Appointed by God. This is Louis XIV, the man. We will uncover his glorious and not-so-glorious obsessions. His debilitating health issues. His drive and passions. And we will dispel some myths, plus reveal the people in his intimate circle working behind the scenes on the Louis propaganda machine to ensure his legacy stayed in the history books forever. This easy-to-read narrative is accompanied by a plethora of little-known artworks, so if you’re a Louis XIV fan or student, or just eager to know more about France’s most famous king, we invite you to delve into court life of seventeenth-century French aristocracy, the period known as Le Grand Siècle—“The Grand Century.”
A Kingdom Of Images
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Author : Peter Fuhring
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2015-06-18
A Kingdom Of Images written by Peter Fuhring and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with Art categories.
Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
Antiquarianism And The Visual Histories Of Louis Xiv
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Author : Robert Wellington
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Antiquarianism And The Visual Histories Of Louis Xiv written by Robert Wellington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would interpret the material remains of their culture on contemporary antiquarian methods, creating new works of art as artifacts for a future time. The need for such items to function as historical evidence led to many pictorial developments, and medals played a central role in this. Coin-like in form but not currency, the medal was the consummate antiquarian object, made in imitation of ancient coins used to study the past. Yet medals are often elided from the narrative of the arts of ancient r?me France, their neglect wholly disproportionate to the cultural status that they once held. This revisionary study uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV, and in the defining monuments of his age. It looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document Louis XIV's history, to argue that they are the results of a creative process wedded to antiquarianism, an intellectual culture that provided a model for the production of history in the grand si?e.
Rise And Fall Of The Absolute Monarchy Grand Siecle And Enlightenment
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language : en
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Presents the "Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy: Grand Siecle and Enlightenment," an online exhibition of the U.S. Library of Congress highlighting the second half of the 17th and end of the 18th centuries in France. Features the creative activities and cultural events during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715).