... begun by Richelieu and perfected by Louis XIV, imposed its authority through executive decisions. Louis reduced the importance of the parlements, never summoned the Estates General, and, so far as such a thing was humanly possible in his century, built a government that was himself... The most dangerous potential opponents of royal absolutism, as Louis XIV knew from his own experience during the... of the Catholic Reformation, so France was the nerve center of late-seventeenth-century politics, diplomacy, and culture. How much of this predominance is to be attributed to the long reign of Louis XIV is one of those questions that historians can speculate about but never answer. No one doubts that French (and European) history would have run in different channels had Louis never lived — or had... the ruler. Louis is said to have remarked, "I am the state." Even if the remark is apocryphal, the words reveal more of the true importance of his reign than anything else he said or wrote. Louis XIV set out early in his reign to personify the concept of sovereignty. He dramatized this aim immediately after Mazarin's death by ordering his ministers thereafter to report to him in person, not to ...
... can be traced to the fact that the Jesuit missionaries had built in 1728 the Ghurch of St. Paul adjoining the Vedapuriswar temple. Those Jesuits were, so to say, all-powerful. During the reign of Louis XIV who had ascended the throne of France in 1643, they had had Governor Hebert recalled, because Hebert wanted to clip their wings by issuing a declaration proclaiming the citizens' freedom to live... should be pulled down. Not just any old temple would do, mind you. The temple should be the principal place of worship for the Hindus of Pondicherry. So it had to be the Veda Puri Ishwara temple. Louis XIV, the 'Sun-King' in whose name Francois Martin had given assurance to Tamil people, found nothing wrong in passing such a dark order. But the Pondicherry administration found itself unable to execute... 2 went and told the priest that he might break the idols as he pleased. He answered that she had accomplished what had been impossible for fifty years...." The temple demolition order passed by Louis XIV was finally executed under the reign of his great-grandson, Louis XV. Governor Dupleix had also ordered the demolition of the ancient mosque opposite the Eglise des Capucins. But unlike the ...
... interest in everything, which did not _______________ ¹ Versailles: a city in North central France, near Paris: site of an elaborate royal residence built for Louis XIV; seat of the French kings (1682-1789). ² Louis XIV: known as le Roi Soleil (the Sun King). 1638-1715, king of France (1643-1715). Effective ruler from 1661, he established an absolute monarchy. His reign is regarded as... Lompi the Elder - 1793 ) Catherine the Great Introduction In England the period of the New Monarchy from Edward IV to Elizabeth, in France the great Bourbon period from Henry IV to Louis XIV in Spain the epoch which extends from Ferdinand to Philip II, in Russia the rule of Peter the Great and Catherine were the time in which these nations reached their maturity, formed fully and confirmed... edited a literary review, the very first in Russia. She organized drama performances. In her palace, whose splendour outshone that of Versailles¹, she entertained lavishly, even beyond the dreams of Louis XIV² . Besides all this activity, she conducted long and ruinous, expensive wars against Turkey. Although present only in the person of her generals, she controlled the day-to-day operations and ...
... a statesman under Louis XIV (1638-1715). Colbert it was who reformed French financial administration, developed industry, virtually founded the French Navy and, Page 145 above all, founded the French Academies of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts. The same year (1664) that Colbert set up the French Company, a group of merchants sent a 'Requeste' to Louis XIV. Referring to the... soon to become a town. Pondicherry became an important base for the French. Gradually they levied taxes, and introduced their own legal system to the territories they governed. The French king, Louis XIV constituted in 1702 a Sovereign Council ( Conseil Souverain) at Pondicherry. The French Company had its Higher Council (Conseil Superieur) where all criminal cases were tried. 1 When ...
... were not so abundant. They were not abundant anywhere in fact, but in Elizabethan England they were even less so. You can imagine the condition of amenities when you know that even at the time of Louis XIV, a little after the Elizabethan Age, the Great Palace of the Roi Soleil, the Sun-King, had not a single bathroom anywhere. And all the people, the cavaliers, the musketeers, the foreign emissaries... apartment. Not much later in time, Frederick the Great of Germany had to send for a bucket of water from a well half a mile away whenever he felt like having a bath, which was not very frequent. Louis XIV never had a bath except once when he was born and once when he was dead. On both occasions others washed him. He used to pour Eau de Cologne every time he felt himself not quite royally odoriferous ...
... the time.’ (John Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland, Shakespeare alive! p. 23) [^101]: There is some evidence that Sri Aurobindo was, besides Leonardo da Vinci, also Pericles, Caesar Augustus and Louis XIV. He may have been King Solomon, for, after all, the basic form of his symbol is that of Solomon. A disciple of whom some incarnations are common knowledge was Nolini Kanta Gupta, a great yogi. He... Pierre de Ronsard, the French poet of the Pleiade and friend of Francois Clouet; Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth’s councillor and spy-master; André Le Nôtre, who designed the gardens of the palace of Louis XIV at Versailles; and André de Chenier, the poet of the French Revolution, who died on the guillotine. [^102]: The difference between an incarnation of an ordinary human being and an incarnation ...
... and the Parisian Apache. For these, I believe, are the chief triumphs of the European enlightenment to which we bow our heads. For these Augustus created Europe, Charlemagne refounded civilisation, Louis XIV regulated society, Napoleon systematised the French Revolution. For these Goethe thought, Shakespeare imagined and created, St. Francis loved, Christ was crucified. What a Page 545 bankruptcy ...
... has poisoned, as nothing else, the internal political atmosphere of the Weimar Republic.” 261 The Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Versailles palace of Louis XIV, was another cause of German and Hitlerian wrath, and the author of Mein Kampf used his choicest vocabulary for lashing out at it. Versailles was “a scandal and a disgrace, and the dictate signified ...
... certain moment seems to drift away from its goal and at others it draws close to a greater height. But there is something else, that is a social point of view: there is a period, like the Age of Louis XIV for example, in which what predominated was the sense of artistic creation, and this sense seems to have given a certain perception of beauty at that moment; but afterwards social evolution brought ...
... the Parisian Apache. For these, I believe, are the chief triumphs of the European enlightenment to which we bow our heads. For these Augustus created Europe, Charlemagne re founded civilisation, Louis XIV regulated society. Napoleon systematised the French Revolution. For these Goethe thought, Shakespeare imagined and created, St. Francis loved, Christ was crucified. What a bankruptcy! What a beggary ...
... pun. A pun, you know, is a play on words, either a use of the same word to suggest different meanings or a use of different words with different meanings but the same sound. A wit at the court of Louis XIV claimed that he could make a pun on any subject. Louis asked him to do so on Louis himself, the king. The 1. P. 324 (American Edition, 1949). Page 26 pun-maker refused, saying ...
... defeated, allied himself with Alexander and fought against his own countrymen. In Europe also the same thing happened during the Middle Ages, and continued even up to the early part of the reign of Louis XIV. Some provinces of France were at one time fighting for France, and at another time against her. PURANI: Yes, a part of France was sometimes calling England to come and rule her. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... up great aspiring souls, strong men of action, indeed, but as part of themselves, in their various aspects, facets, centres of expression, lines of expansion. An Augustus, a Pericles, a Leo X, a Louis XIV, or a Vikramaditya are not more than nuclei, as I have already said, centres of reference round which their respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; ...
... Laplace, 225, 312, 319, 388 League of Nations, 78, 80, 85 Leibnitz, 327 Lenin, 125 Leo X, 207 Leonardo da Vinci, 120 Lewis, Cecil Day, 195 Louis XIV, 207 Lucifer, 267 MACBETH, 186 Madhusudan Dutt, 120, 197 Mahabharata, the, 188,217,222 Mahalakshmi, 275 Mahasaraswati,271 Mahashakti, 327 ...
... epoch some fine things are expressed in a fine way. Then follows an epoch which is tired of the old things, wants to find new things and Page 176 express in a new way. The age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas ...
... great aspiring souls, strong men of action, indeed, but as part of themselves, in their various aspects, facets, centres of expression, lines of expansion. An Augustus, a Pericles, a Leo X , a Louis XIV, or a Vikramaditya are not more than nuclei, as I have already said, centres of reference round which their respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; ...
... Kanwa, Rishi, 151 Kinnara, 47 Krishna, 9, 58, 76, 82, 93, 101, 105, 112, 116, 161,317 Kurukshetra, 66, 109, 116 LAo- TSE, 134 Laplace, 370 Lazarus, 200 Lenin, 142 Louis XIV, 209, 320, 418 Lucifer, 46, 81 MADAGASCAR, 323-4 Macbeth, 93 McDougall, 57 Mahakali, 44, 160, 207-10, 225, 382 Mahalakshmi, 44, 207, 209-10, 225 Mahasaraswati, 44, 207-10, 225 ...
... that time that he wrote his most beautiful poems. He was always in a very good humour, charming, smiling, pleasant to everyone even while his body was going to bits. You may remember how the great Louis XIV used to joke and laugh, while, in his last days, his body was being lacerated and given over to leeches by his doctors and surgeons. It depends upon individual and individual. For there are people ...
... the principle of Maheshwari; while Christ or Chaitanya are clearly emanations in the line of Mahalakshmi. Constructive geniuses, on the other hand, like the great statesman Colbert, for example, or Louis XIV, le grand monarque, himself belong to a family (or gotra, as we say in India) that originated from Mahasaraswati. Poets and artists again, although generally they belong to the clan of Mahalakshmi ...
... when I saw there ... I saw the park filling up with lights —that is, the electric lights had vanished —with all kinds of lights: torches, lanterns, etc. And many people were walking about ... in Louis XIV costume! My eyes were wide open as I stood staring at all this. I was holding on to the balustrade to be sure not to fall down! For I was rather unsure of myself. I was looking at all that when I ...
... coffers empty, Dupleix too was Page 166 ruined. Jeanne died first, and Dupleix followed her to the other world in 1763. King Louis XV (1710-74). He was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, his successor, and king of France from the age of five. Many were the wars fought during his reign. One of these was the Seven Years War (1756-63), between France, Austria and Russia on the one side ...
... aesthetic tastes, its polite culture, its keen worldly wisdom and its excessive appreciation of wit and learning. Religious and ethical thought and sentiment were cultivated much as in France under Louis XIV, more in piety and profession than Page 163 as swaying the conduct; they pleased the intellect or else touched the sentiment, but did not govern the soul. It was bad taste to be irreligious ...
... are common and universal characteristics in the procedure of our autocratic democrats. The difference is merely in personal temperament and manner of expression. "The State? I am the State!" cried Louis XIV. "The country? I am the country!" cries Sir Pherozshah Mehta or Pundit Madan Mohan Malaviya or Mr. Krishnaswamy Aiyar, as the case may be. Only, as his personality is more robust, so is Sir Pherozshah's ...
... 21-June-1907 While Mr. John Morley was being cross-examined by the Nationalist and Labour members in Parliament and was answering in his usual style of Demigod plus Aristides the Just plus Louis XIV of France plus the Archangel Gabriel, the tiger qualities of an imperial race suddenly awoke in the breast of Sir Howard Vincent and roared out, "Why not shoot Lajpat Rai?" In that single trenchant ...
... centralise authority, to narrow or quite suppress liberty and free variation. In England the period of the New Monarchy from Edward IV to Elizabeth, in France the great Bourbon period from Henry IV to Louis XIV, in Spain the epoch which extends from Ferdinand to Philip II, in Russia the rule of Peter the Great and Catherine were the time in which these nations reached their maturity, formed fully and confirmed ...
... monarchy, brought to supreme power by the repeated lessons of the English invasions, the Spanish pressure, the civil wars, developed inevitably that absolutism which the great historic figure of Louis XIV so strikingly personifies. His famous dictum, "I am the State", expressed really the need felt by the country of the development of one undisputed sovereign power which should concentrate in itself ...
... word it never fails. The next phase of Classicism is the French, mainly under Page 24 Louis XIV. It crystallises the French poetic genius, about which Sri Aurobindo writes that it is much more limited than the Graeco-Roman, much less powerful in inspiration. "For ...
... determined its form was the defeat of the Calvinistic reformation in France and the absolute triumph of the monarchical system over the nobility and the bourgeoisie in the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. That double victory determined the destruction of the monarchy in France, the downfall of the Church and, by the failure of the nobles to lead faithfully the liberal cause whether in religion or ...
... until the new bathroom was made. His long hair went unwashed for quite a time. He Page 110 didn't mind at all. Not that he was indifferent to bathing or was trying to imitate Louis XIV who had only two baths in his life, ' one when he was born and the other when he died — so goes the story. It was not that at all (you have noticed in my earlier statement that he used to take his ...
... staring at the park, when I saw... I saw the park filling up with lights (the electric lights had vanished), with all kinds of lights, torches, lanterns... and then crowds of people walking about... in Louis XIV dress! I was staring at this with my eyes wide open, holding on to the balustrade to keep from falling down (I wasn't too sure of myself!). I was seeing it all, then I saw myself there, engrossed ...
... The generosity of Catherine, the splendor of her reign, the magnificence of her court, her institutions, her monuments, her wars, were precisely to Page 61 Russia what the age of Louis XIV was to Europe; but, considered individually, Catherine was greater than this Prince. The French formed the glory of Louis; Catherine formed that of the Russians. She had not, like him, the advantage ...
... go up, the shoulders may not lift, the neck may not stiffen, nor the mouth open like a hooked fish. The five classic positions and the basic arm postures and steps were named at the request of Louis XIV by his great ballet master, Pécourt, Lully's collaborator, codified, described and fixed in the regimen of daily exercise which has become almost ceremonial with time. Since then the technique has ...
... Moliere? "Polish me", entreated Jourdain who was a nouveau riche and who intensely desired to pay anything to anybody if only he would acquire the 'polish of the world of the court' of the Sun King, Louis XIV. And immediately at his request masters of philosophy and maitres d'armes begin to try 'to teach Monsieur Jourdain the unteachable and to make out of a bourgeois a gentleman.' Her too we feel tempted ...
... principle of. Maheshwari; while Christ or Chaitanya are clearly emanations in the line of Mahalakshmi. Constructive geniuses, on the other hand, like the great statesman Colbert, for example, or Louis XIV, Ie grand monarque, himself belong to a family (or gotra, as we' say in India) that originated from Mahasaraswati. Poets and artists again, although generally they belong to the clan of Mahalakshmi ...
... curve. In a certain epoch some fine things are expressed in a fine way. Then follows an epoch which is tired of the old things, wants to find new things and express them in a new way. The age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas ...
... Versailles by night; then, suddenly, I saw the park filling up with lights (the electric lights had vanished), with all kinds of lights: torches, lanterns—and then crowds of people walking about in Louis XIV dress! I was staring at this with my eyes wide open, holding on to the balustrade to keep from falling down, I was not too sure of myself! I was seeing it all, then I saw myself there, engrossed in ...
... European to travel the length of the Mississipi, from the great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the entire drainage area for France, and naming it Louisiana for his patron, the French king Louis XIV." The English settlement on Virginia in 1607 was the start of their empire building, "nothing before could be called a British Empire." The Dutch were a little late in this colonizing game ...
... 7. Superior People Hitler and his God A Place in the Sun Germany as a coherent nation was born in 1871, strangely enough in the Hall of Mirrors of Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles. Its formation was the result of the political talent and unrelenting efforts of one man, Otto von Bismarck, who became its first chancellor. The emperor of the new nation was ...
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