Jean-Baptiste Colbert brought industrial policy to the court of Louis XIV, rebuilding the economy around national champions.
As Colbert told Louis XIV, at some point the tax authorities have to start listening to the geese.
Tea first became popular in Paris in the 1660s, when King Louis XIV took it to aid his digestion.
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In France Lionel Jospin is looking more and more like Louis XIV--the French state's share of GDP now exceeds 45%.
The world has given us leaders like Ivan the Terrible and Louis XIV, horrible for different reason, but no less horrible.
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In 1757, Antonio Canova, Italian neo-classical sculptor whose works include the tombs of Pope Clement XIV and Clement XIII, was born.
Greenspan's Louis XIV "I am the state" proclivities were intensified when he fell under the sway of a strange theory of Ben Bernanke's.
France has been at fashion's forefront since the 17th century, when the court of Louis XIV set European standards of elegance, craftsmanship and excess.
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Of such cultures, Louis XIV's France is the last great example.
Pope Benedict XIV promulgated an encyclical Vix Pervenit: On Usury and Other Dishonest Profit as late as 1745, and it has yet to be formally retracted.
The court of Louis XIV was impressed as much by the neckerchiefs of Croat mercenaries employed to fight the Thirty Years War as by their fighting spirit.
The emphasis on dance in French opera started with Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), himself a dancer, who became the court composer to France's music-loving "Sun King, " Louis XIV.
In 1693, however, the French king Louis XIV again sacked Heidelberg, blowing up its key buildings and burning the refurbished library and its contents to the ground.
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In the late 17th century, Louis XIV infamously expelled nearly a million Protestants who at that time were a rich and powerful minority active in banking and finance.
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In 1685, King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, depriving the Protestant Huguenots of all religious and civil liberties granted them by Henry IV in 1598.
France, famously centralised since Louis XIV's reign (1643-1715), has also usefully loosened its Parisian bonds since the 1980s by creating 22 new mainland regions with budgets of their own.
He begins and ends with Louis XIV's and Napoleon's shapely legs a light-hearted nod to the modish history of the body but his focus is really on politics and the state.
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Historians quibble about whether the modern level was invented by Mechisedech Thevenot , royal librarian to King Louis XIV of France, or by legendary English natural scientist Robert Hooke .
"Sire, do not talk to me of small projects, " said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris.
Setting these on paper took several years of working intensely together in their Paris studio, a floor in the former lodging of Louis XIV's gardener, which also served as their apartment.
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In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.
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It left only some very faint tracks of its enormous successes, to begin again around the XIV and the XV centuries when the Arab-Islamic science characterized the second scientific era that the Mediterranean has experienced.
There, pieces include a cabinet made by Linley, the London-based furniture business started by Queen Elizabeth II's nephew, and an ornate, 19th century table decorated with paintings of Louis XIV's court, including his wife, Marie Antoinette.
The art of taxation, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), the comptroller general of finances, told Louis XIV before that king's spending got really out of hand, is to pluck from the goose the most feathers with the least hissing.
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