A recent invitation to the Getty Center for a press preview of their new exhibit “Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV” (on exhibit through May 1, 2016) had me very excited for reasons beyond the sheer ...

For nearly all 115 minutes of “The Death of Louis XIV,” the hypnotically grueling new film from the Catalan writer-director Albert Serra, we are peering into a royal bedchamber at 18th century ...

Louis XIV, like politicians of today, knew the value of controlling his public image. Throughout his over 70-year reign, the French king directed a self-portrait campaign in medals — the petite ...

to take the reins of power himself. In his youth, there had been uprisings by landed noblemen from their provincial estates launched against the crown. In order to prevent future uprisings, Louis XIV ...

VERSAILLES, France — In curator Béatrix Saule’s extensive exhibition Le Roi Est Mort (“The King Is Dead”), the Palace of Versailles is presenting a shaggy-dog narrative about the death of Louis XIV.

A quick search for “things to see in Paris” will provide you instantly with a list of world-famous buildings, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower. But topping those lists is, invariably, the Louvre, ...

The outspoken comments the front-runner on the GOP side of the U.S. Presidential race echo as far as the streets and alleyways of my corner of the French capital these days. And this is a city with a ...

Having trouble keeping up with the latest fashion trends? You can blame 17th century French monarch Louis XIV for that. According to The Atlantic, before Louis took the throne in 1643, high fashion ...

The researchers believe they have discovered the real cause of death for the King of France, who died in 1715, per The Times and Le Parisien The king's cause of death was previously recorded as ...

If anybody wants to explain the extensive, intricate and French governmental aid system for cinema and TV, they could do worse than watch “Versailles,” an English-language Canal Plus Creation ...

Joan DeJean, author of The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour!, aims to prove that almost everything we think of as ...