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.

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And that will have to include the story of the captive workers who toiled in the sun for the sake of king cotton.

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"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.

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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).

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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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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 Sun King drank his from a gold cup, a gift from the King of Siam.

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