Then, Louis XIV moved to Versailles, and the carpets were never installed. Starting tomorrow through February 8, roughly 30 ...

Scientists have reexamined a mummified fragment of Louis XIV’s heart and now say the Sun King may have died from a chronic fungal infection rather than the gangrene long believed to have killed him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Louis XIV died in 1715, doctors believed they understood exactly what claimed the life of Europe’s longest-reigning monarch.

A quick search for “things to see in Paris” will provide you instantly with a list of world-famous buildings, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower. But topping those lists is, invariably, the Louvre, ...

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A centuries-old French château with ties to Louis XIV is on the market for the first time in nearly 80 years, asking $22.9 million. Known as the Château de la Bretèche, the roughly 16,000-square-foot ...

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