Maxime d'Aboville retraces two centuries of French history, from Marignan to Louis XIV, in a History Lesson at the Théâtre de Poche, every Saturday at 5 p.m. starting October 4.

VERSAILLES, France — In curator Béatrix Saule’s extensive exhibition Le Roi Est Mort (“The King Is Dead”), the Palace of Versailles is presenting a shaggy-dog narrative about the death of Louis XIV.

Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the ...

French New Wave veteran Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as the bedridden Roi Soleil in Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra's latest. By Boyd van Hoeij Even though his mannered Locarno Golden Leopard Winner The ...

Move over Louis XIV, there’s a new flamboyant royal in town. In 2015, the presumed heir to the Saudi kingdom Mohammed bin Salman, splashed out almost $300 million on the 50,000 acre Chateau Louis XIV ...

The French are famous for their supposedly relaxed attitudes toward sex, in contrast to our supposedly puritanical ones. And no one is fonder of this cliché than the French themselves, as was apparent ...

Something new under the sun, neglected by historians for 300 years, motivates English biographer Antonia Fraser. She explores the influence of women on the life of Louis XIV, France's dazzling Sun ...

As we go into this Christmas week, you should count your blessings that you live in 2014. Would you prefer to live as the French King Louis XIV did (1643-1715), or as you do today? The average ...

Louis-Dieudonné — that’s Louis “Gift of God” — became king of France when he was not yet 5. His widowed mom, the Spanish Hapsburg queen of Austria, ruled in his place as he grew up, along with firm — ...