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5 articles matching “Louis XIV”
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He was the most powerful king in Europe. He wept at the carriage door while she climbed in. You are the king, she said, and you weep. He dried his eyes and married someone else. She spent the next fifty years making sure the record was accurate.
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They began with water. At dawn in Paris, a woman was strapped down in the Conciergerie and forced to swallow water until her body became an instrument of pain all by itself. The question extraordinaire was not a hidden act. It was part of the script.
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She had buried child after child. When one finally lived, they said he had been smuggled into her bed in a warming pan.
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The death of Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont on June 4 1678 brought a quiet end to a life defined by open defiance of her marriage and high-profile romantic liaisons at the French court. She was the daughter of Antoine de Gramont, a Marshal of France, and a grandniece of Cardinal Richelieu. In 1660, she married Louis Grimaldi, the Duke of Valentinois and heir to the throne of Monaco, in an alliance designed to strengthen ties between the French nobility and the sovereign Grimaldi family. When her husband ascended the throne as Prince Louis I in 1662, she became the Princess consort of Monaco.
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In the winter of 1712, the French royal family died.