Some said the man in the iron mask was a bastard son of Anne of Austria (Louis’s mother) and half brother to the king. Some pamphleteers imagined that the mask was Louis XIV’s punishment for ...

But his son, Louis XIV, had bigger plans for the ... alluding to the sun throughout the park. When he became king, Louis XIV chose the sun as his personal symbol, and became known as the Sun ...

Video - The 'Code noir,' enacted in 1685 under King Louis XIV, defined the rules of slavery in France's colonies. Prime ...

It is the late 17th century, and King Louis XIV is at the pinnacle of his power. Versailles is the hub of the French aristocracy, a great beehive dripping with honey — and bristling with stingers.

In 1661 the 23 year-old French king Louis the XIV had been on the throne for 18 years when his chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, died. Louis is reported to have said to his ministers ...