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These Fascinating Objects Show How the Palace of Versailles Drove Surprising Scientific Advances in the 17th and 18th Centuries
The machine was designed at the request of the French king Louis XIV—the monarch who commissioned Versailles, also known as the Sun King. His and his successors’ courts are mainly remembered ...
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Palace of Versailles: Everything You Need to Know
The second Versailles, [the castle that replaced the lodge], was designed by Philibert Le Roy,” who was appointed royal engineer and architect to the king. Louis XIV then hired the most ...
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Andy Warhol & Louis XIV: Sun Kings
STEPHEN SMITH, the presenter of A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of ...