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La polémica entre Voltaire y La Beaumelle: a propósito del "Supplément au Siècle de Louis XIV"

open access: greenMontesquieu.it, 2018
The aim of this paper is to examine the extent of the critiques that La Beaumelle gives to Voltaire in the annotated edition of the Siècle de Louis XIV, published in 1753, and his response in the Supplément au Siècle de Louis XIV, published a few months ...
Adrián Ratto
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M. Yardeni, Utopie et révolte sous Louis XIV

open access: diamondCzasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 1983
Recenzja: Myriam Yardeni, Utopie et révolte sous Louis XIV, Librairie A. G. Nizet, Paris 1980, ss. 167.
Stanisław Russocki
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Vision philosophique pour l’usage du marbre dans l’architecture intérieure des palais français de style Louis XIV [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2023
Luxe, rareté, beauté, étrangeté, lumière, brillance et éternité ont justifié l’emploi du marbre dans les grands décors du château de Versailles, siège du royaume français et instrument de pouvoir du roi Louis XIV.
Enas Hosny Ibrahim Anous Anous
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Gaston d’Orléans et le collectionnisme d’antiques : une pratique politique et culturelle léguée à Louis XIV ?

open access: yesBulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2021
In an analysis involving political history and the history of royal and princely collecting, I propose to study the material and symbolic legacy that Gaston d’Orléans left for his nephew Louis XIV.
Delphine Carrangeot
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The Figure of Tyranny in the Glorification of William and Mary: Reassessing the interpretation of Thornhill’s Painted Hall

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2022
Sir James Thornhill’s fresco on the ceiling of the Painted Hall in Greenwich was executed during Queen Anne’s reign. The political tensions of the time crystallised in the interpretations of the allegorical figure of tyranny, at the centre of the ...
Noémi Duperron
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A World of Paper. Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Review of J.C. Rule & B.S. Trotter, A World of Paper. Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy and the Rise of the Information State (Kingston/Montréal: McGill/Queen's UP, 2014)
Dhondt, Frederik
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Mansel, King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (Allen Lane, 2019)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2020
Review of Philip Mansel, King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (London: Allen Lane, 2019).
Yohann Deguin
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From contract to treaty: the legal transformation of the Spanish succession (1659-1713) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The problem of the Spanish Succession kept the European diplomatic system in suspense from 1659 until 1713. Statesmen and diplomats tackled the question. Their practical vision of the law is a necessary complement to legal doctrine. Louis XIV and Emperor
Dhondt, Frederik
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Masculinité et mode au xviie siècle : L’Histoire des perruques de l’abbé J.-B. Thiers

open access: yesItinéraires, 2008
Seventeenth-century moralists denounced fashion and its perceived related vices of immodesty and vanity. As male fashion became more elaborate, linked with the increasingly centralized courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, men as well as women were ...
Paul Scott
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Analysis of Cavitation Instabilities in a Four-Blade Inducer

open access: yesInternational Journal of Rotating Machinery, 2012
The cavitating behavior of a four-blade inducer tested in the LML laboratory large test facility is considered in the present paper. Experimental investigations based on unsteady pressure measurements and records from a six-component balance mounted on ...
O. Coutier-Delgosha   +3 more
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