Smithsonian Magazine27d
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 ... After Louis XV died of smallpox, his son and successor Louis XVI announced that the royal ...
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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 ...