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Taylor Swift is related to a French king and Johnny Depp, genealogist says. Here's how
King Louis XIV ruled from 1643 to 1715 — a total of ... Speaking of Swift's ties to France, the "Fortnight" singer will be performing in Paris on the "Eras Tour" through Sunday, May 12, after ...
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15 vintage photos of Mardi Gras in New Orleans show it's always been a wild party
Mardi Gras arrived in the United States in the late 1600s, thanks to the Le Moyne brothers, whom King Louis XIV sent to defend France's right to the territory of Louisiane. Traditionally ...
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Andy Warhol & Louis XIV: Sun Kings
Andy Warhol in his house on Lexington Avenue, New York City, 1966 | Louis XIV, King of France 1638-1715, by Claude Lefèbvre | BBC / Getty Images Andy Warhol seemed to come from the future - from ...
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Why pieces of fake news surge
In the history of France, there was a prisoner during the reign of King Louis XIV, who was more known as the "Man in the Iron Mask." ...
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Arrival of the Carignan-Salires regiment
In the early summer of 1665, twelve hundred men of the Carignan-Salières regiment landed in New France, under the orders of King Louis XIV. For the Jesuit Superior, François Le Mercier ...
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Nine show-stopping facts about high heels
3. King Louis XIV of France sent the popularity of heels stratospheric A big moment in the history of the high heel was when France’s king, Louis XIV, took a fancy to them. The vertically ...
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The filles du roi (daughters of the king)
In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king ... France to help populate the colony. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Secretary of State for ...
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The French Revolution
By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized ...
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Timeline: New Orleans
La Salle claims the region and names it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV of France. February 10: The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Seven Years' War and resulting in Spain taking ...
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Louis IX, King of France
In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a carved shield with the coat of arms of St Louis (Louis IX), King of France (1214-1270). The shield shows "azure, a semee de lys or" although there is ...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Good versus evil - Alexandre Dumas' classic story about an imprisoned man in a hideous iron mask and his foppish, elegant twin brother, King Louis XIV of France.