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5 days ago · Louis was the son of Louis XIII and his Spanish queen, Anne of Austria. He succeeded his father on May 14, 1643. At the age of four years and eight months, he was, according to the laws of the kingdom, not only the master but the owner of the bodies and property of 19 million subjects. Although he was saluted as “a visible divinity,” he was ...
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3 days ago · Catholicism. Signature. Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé ), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ...
2 days ago · The Palace of Versailles ( / vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d (ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris, France . The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been ...
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3 days ago · The Diary of a Young Girl, journal by Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who chronicled her family’s two years (1942–44) in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The book was first published in 1947—two years after Anne’s death in a concentration camp —and later became a classic of war literature.
1 day ago · The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s preeminent cultural and commercial centres.A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or “city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s vision of a modern city free of the ...
1 day ago · Marie Brémont (1886–2001) is the fifth-oldest Frenchwoman ever and was the world's oldest person from November 2000 to June 2001. Pictured in 1910, aged 23–24. French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age.
5 days ago · The diary is probably the most celebrated book ever written by a teenage girl, a sacred text for some, and a teaching tool that illustrates the end result of racism. Its appeal lies in Anne’s intimate account of coming of age in the close quarters of a secret annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
