and performances of a new play by Molière and a ballet by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The king took part in the pageant himself, as Antonia Fraser writes in Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of ...

The Serre-Chevalier area in the French Alps offers 250 km of ski slopes alongside 300 days of sunshine, with a Club Med that reopened after a multi-million renovation.

Ballet was developed by Louis XIV (1638-1715). The historical and cultural backgrounds (of ballet in Europe), along with how far it is accepted among citizens, are greatly different (from other ...

Natural light filters through antique stained glass windows, casting colored shadows that dance across the floor as clouds pass overhead. In the evening, the space is illuminated by the very ...

Walking up to Dop Antiques, you’ll notice the collection of garden furniture casually arranged outside – wrought iron tables, wooden benches, and the occasional architectural salvage piece basking in ...

That’s fine, although the Oval is already getting so overstuffed with objets d’art as to resemble Louis XIV’s ministorage. Indeed, it would do Mr. Trump good to be in the presence of our ...

Although the largest cicada brood in West Virginia won’t return until 2033, some counties will see cicadas from Brood XIV which emerges in 2025.

The Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles welcomes the Junior Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, from June 12 to 14, 2025. A first ...

The Fêtes Galantes return to the Château de Versailles! For one evening, Monday June 2, 2025, slip into the shoes of a ...

Galas aren't always the easiest of watches; endless pas de deux with bravado at the forefront of proceedings. That said - ...

This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard – in 13 states, said Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that crowdsources and reviews data on cicadas. The noisy ...