The Sun King drank his from a gold cup, a gift from the King of Siam.
French fantasies of Paris becoming a superpower, with Jacques Chirac as a modern Sun King, are over.
Red heels were so important to the Sun King that he passed an edict saying that only members of the nobility by birth could wear them.
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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.
Despite the overall growth in the U.S. market, installations in California, long the sun king, fell 16% to 94 megawatts in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the first quarter of the year.
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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.
Also in the Broad Ripple neighbourhood, chef Greg Hardesty presents plates of edible art at his acclaimed Recess, illustrating just how refined the Indianapolis food scene has become, with a rotating menu of fresh fish like sable served with a sweetcorn-scallion blini, and an international drinks list of perfect dish pairings, from a French 2009 Domaines Schlumberger pinot gris to a local Sun King Brewery Wee Mac Scottish-style ale.
And that will have to include the story of the captive workers who toiled in the sun for the sake of king cotton.
On the contrary, no feast day for Sol is mentioned on that day until 80 years later in the Calendar of 354 and, subsequently, in 362 by Julian the Apostate in his Oration to King Helios (the Sun).
King Solomon told us that there is nothing new under the sun.
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