Negative Space: Louis XIV
- King Louis XIV
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Rigaud painted this portrait of Louis XIV in 1701, after the fictional events in “The Man in the Iron Mask”. Louis had originally commissioned this as a gift for the King of Spain, but Louis liked it so much he kept it and hung it in Versailles.
- Louis XIV
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Did Louis XIV have many open affairs? According to Kleinman, he was certainly given to believe that he married solely for reasons of state: he was at the time of his marriage strongly in love with one of Mazarin’s nieces, far below him in class, and had to be continually dissuaded from marrying her instead.
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- The latest Musketeer movie has brought a huge number of questions about how it fits with the books.
