In 1848, the Second French Republic was proclaimed two days after the abdication of King Louis-Philippe.
Tea first became popular in Paris in the 1660s, when King Louis XIV took it to aid his digestion.
Born a commoner, she won the affection of King Louis XV in 1745, becoming his chief mistress and gaining nobility.
The story is set in 17th Century Paris and follows a crack team of soldiers and bodyguards to King Louis XIII.
In 1792, in France the Legislative Assembly ended its session with calls for revolution and without debating the motions for the removal of the King Louis XVI.
In 1693, however, the French king Louis XIV again sacked Heidelberg, blowing up its key buildings and burning the refurbished library and its contents to the ground.
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In 1685, King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, depriving the Protestant Huguenots of all religious and civil liberties granted them by Henry IV in 1598.
Historians quibble about whether the modern level was invented by Mechisedech Thevenot , royal librarian to King Louis XIV of France, or by legendary English natural scientist Robert Hooke .
In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.
Members of British royalty, Napoleon Bonaparte, King Louis Philippe of France, Frederick II of Prussia and other dignitaries all drank wines from Constantia and served it to special guests in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
The eighteenth century was the French century: Rousseau, Voltaire, Versailles and the court of the Sun King Louis the Fourteenth, Buffon and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris buzzing with the discourse of the enlightenment and the new supremacy of scientific method.
Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in France in 1761, and learned to sculpt wax as a teenager -- her early subjects included Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin -- and went on to become a favorite of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
The next two safest banks according to Global Finance are Caisse des Depots et Consignations - created by French King Louis XVIII in 1816 to manage the pension funds of state employees - and Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, 50% owned by the state and 50% by the provinces.
The art of taxation, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), the comptroller general of finances, told Louis XIV before that king's spending got really out of hand, is to pluck from the goose the most feathers with the least hissing.
The emphasis on dance in French opera started with Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), himself a dancer, who became the court composer to France's music-loving "Sun King, " Louis XIV.
"Sire, do not talk to me of small projects, " said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris.
In 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou, who were negotiating an alliance, were assassinated by Vlada Chernozamsky, a Croatian terrorist, in Marseilles.
And the home side gained some breathing space when King went flying over in the same corner after good work by Louis Anderson.
Wright performed a duet with Darius Brubeck on "King For A Day, " a song written by Dave and Iola Brubeck for Louis Armstrong for their 1962 musical "The Real Ambassadors, " which dealt with allegations of hypocrisy for the State Department using jazz musicians as symbols of democracy while the civil rights struggle was raging at home.
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