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    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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    ISBN 1-841-76361-6 OCLC 50101401 The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714 (Longman, 1999) Les guerres de Louis XIV, 1667-1714, traduction Perrin 2010, ISBN 978-2-262-02456-7...
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    Battle of Malplaquet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    dernières guerres de Louis XIV : histoire et historiographie in Les dernières guerres de Louis XIV; 1688–1715 (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes...
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    three kings of the Ancient Regime (Motifs des guerres et des traités de paix sous Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI). He is said to have been asked by Napoleon...
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    (1661–1685), who married Marie Anne de Bourbon, the illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Louise de La Vallière. In 1683, he assisted...
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    it depended on the ordinaire des guerres (controlled by the Secretary of State for War) for its budget. Under Louis XIV, these two officers of state were...
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    Bombardment of Algiers (1683) (category Louis XIV)
    Louis XIV: le duel entre Alger et la Marine du Roi (1681-1698) (in French). Institut de stratégie comparée. John A. Lynn (2014). Les Guerres de Louis...
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    (eds.). Le duc de Vendôme en Italie (1702–1706) in Les dernières guerres de Louis XIV; 1688–1715 (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 978-2753585317...
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    War of the Camisards (category Louis XIV)
    known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was a response to the Edict of Fountainebleu in 1685. The...
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    Hall of Mirrors (French: Grande Galerie, Galerie des Glaces, Galerie de Louis XIV) is a grand Baroque style gallery and one of the most emblematic rooms...
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    Jacquet de La Guerre (née Jacquet) was born on March 17, 1665, into a family of musicians and master instrument-makers in the parish of Saint-Louis-en-l'Île...
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    Militaire from the Place de Fontenoy St Louis Chapel at the École Militaire Ecole de Guerre-Terre (EDG-T), Paris École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM),...
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  • abrégée des guerres de la Révolution française, depuis 1792 jusqu'à 1815, avec Pierre-François Tissot 1822: Dernières Lettres de deux amants de Barcelone...
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    Marquis de Louvois (18 January 1641 – 16 July 1691) was the French Secretary of State for War during a significant part of the reign of Louis XIV. He is...
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    Siege of Tournai (1667) (category Louis XIV)
    Tournai was an event in the War of Devolution. A French army commanded by Louis XIV successfully besieged the town of Tournai, then part of the Spanish Netherlands...
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  • Versailles (TV series) (category Works about Louis XIV)
    defy and disobey the monarchy. Young King Louis XIV (George Blagden) decides to move the court from the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris to his...
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    neighbours into submission. Louis XIV, along with his chief military advisor, Louvois, his foreign minister, Colbert de Croissy, and his technical expert...
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  • mer: De Louis XIII à Napoléon Ier. Pluriel (in French). Paris: Fayard. p. 286. ISBN 978-2-8185-0437-6. John A. Lynn (2014). Les Guerres de Louis XIV. Tempus...
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    The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by Letters Patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established...
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  • Pseudonym (redirect from Nom de guerre)
    names, graffiti artists' tags, resistance fighters' or terrorists' noms de guerre, computer hackers' handles, and other online identities for services such...
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    Conspiration de Cadoudal (Del Duca, 1964) Les Guerres de Louis XIV et de Louis XV (Plon-Perrin, 1964) Le Testament de la Monarchie. Tome IV : De Louis XVIII...
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  • The Dépôt de la Guerre was France's military archive and cartography department, set up in 1688 under Louis XIV and expanded during the French Revolutionary...
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    (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; died 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of King Louis XIV of France (1643–1715)....
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    War of Devolution (category Louis XIV)
    name derives from an obscure law known as the Jus Devolutionis, used by Louis XIV of France to claim that these territories had "devolved" to him by right...
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    Marie Antoinette in relation to Maria Theresa, the wife of Louis XIV, citing the memoirs of Louis XVIII, who was only fourteen when Rousseau's Confessions...
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    D'Avenel Richelieu et la monarchie absolue (1884); Chéruel, La France sous le ministère de Mazarin (1879) La France sous la minorité de Louis XIV (1882)....
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    Jérôme, King of Westphalia. Through his mother, he is a descendant of King Louis XIV of France and through his great-grandmother, Princess Clémentine of Belgium...
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    Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first...
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  • Prise de la Bastille, 1881 ; Les Guerres de la Vendée, 1884 ; Hier et aujourd'hui, 1886 ; Histoire des guerres de religion, XVIe siècle, 1886. Angelo De Gubernatis...
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    réponse aux calomnies de Certain prétendant justifier les guerres de France contre les mouvemens et la justice des armes de S.M. Impériale, Martin Lambert...
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