STEPHEN SMITH, the presenter of A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of ...

Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, ...

The machine was designed at the request of the French king Louis XIV—the monarch who commissioned Versailles, also known as the Sun King. His and his successors’ courts are mainly remembered ...

The Queen has told how she yearned as a young girl to be a beautiful French woman who ends up in the court of the 17th century Sun King, Louis XIV. Camilla, who was crowned Queen last year ...

When King Louis XIV — also known as the Sun King — moved to Versailles in 1661, he commissioned a famous French landscape architect, André Le Notre, to design the gardens at Versailles palace.