Yet, as it was with King Louis XIV of France, his accretion to an absolute ... absolutism across the ages - hardly did the potentate crown himself or herself as a maximum ruler.

In the early summer of 1665, twelve hundred men of the Carignan-Salières regiment landed in New France, under the orders of King Louis XIV ... representatives of the Crown: the Governor of ...

STEPHEN SMITH, the presenter of A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of ...