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62 matches to Louis X
Pompadour, Mme de. 1721-64. Louis XV’s intelligent, beautiful mistress. Built École Militaire. Sponsored Petit Trianon, Place de la Concorde.
Porte St-Denis. Paris. 1672. Celebrates Louis XIV’s victories on the Rhine.
Public Weal, League of. 1465. French nobles ally vs Louis XI.
Regency. France. 1715-23. Philippe, duc d’Orléans regent for Louis XV.
Renaudot, Théophraste. 1586-1653. Physician to Louis XIII. Huguenot. Founder of first periodical, Gazette de France 1631.
Restoration Period. England 1660-88. Charles II, James II. France 1814~30. Louis XVIII, Charles X.
Richelieu, Cardinal. 1585-1642. French politician 1624-. Built power of Louis XIII.
Salpêtrière. 1656. Established by Louis XIV to care for the 55,000 beggars on the streets of Paris. Pinel.
St Médard Convulsionnaires. Believers in miraculous cures at St. Médard cemetery forbidden by Louis XV in 1732: “By Order of the King, Let God No Miracle Perform in this Place!”
States General. French Representative Assembly. 1302 First summoned by Philip IV. 14-15C Controlled taxes; failed to control government. 1789 last summoned by Louis XVI. 1=Clergy. 2=Nobility. 3=Bourgeoisie.
Ultraroyalists. 19C. French advocates of increased powers for Louis XVIII.
Val-de-Grace. Paris. 1645-1667. Built by Anne of Austria to thank God for birth of Louis XIV after 23 childless years of marriage. Mansart.