“It is legal because I wish it.”

Louis XIV

“Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?”

Louis XIV

“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”

“Only small minds want always to be right.”

Louis XIV

“Impatience for victory guarantees defeat.”

Louis XIV

“The years go by one after the other; time slips past us without us being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.”

Louis XIV

 

“I am terrified of being bored.”

Marie Antoinette

“If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.”

Marie Antoinette

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”

Marie Antoinette

“I wasn’t raised, I was built.”

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She became a symbol of the excesses of the monarchy. As consort to Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette was beheaded nine months after her husband by order of the Revolutionary tribunal.

 

Louis XIV

Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. Starting on 14 May 1643 when Louis was 4 years old, his reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history. In the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV’s France was a leader in the growing centralisation of power.

In 1682 Louis XIV officially moved his court to the palace at Versailles, 13 miles outside of Paris. Europe’s grandest palace became a center of political power and a symbol of the king’s dominance and wealth. In addition to the royal court, the 700-room palace housed the nobility that Louis XIV had brought into his sphere as well as the thousands of staff needed for upkeep.

 

 

ARLES (South of France) and VINCENT VAN GOGH

 

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