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75 - THE CENTURY OF LOUIS XIV
Literature & Art with the seventeenth century.
THE CENTURY OF LOUIS XIV
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MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789) » Apogee of monarchical France
French history in 100 tables
by Paul Lehugeur
ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)
FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)
MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)
Wars of Italy
Wars against the house of Austria
Wars of religion
Apogee of monarchical France
Decline of monarchy
THE REVOLUTION
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The seventeenth century, considered as one intellectual time, can be divided into two parts: 1° the time of Richelieu and Mazarin; 2° the "Century of Louis XIV." - 1° the time of Richelieu and Mazarin is that of the creative geniuses: in the literature, Descartes melts French philosophy; Pascal writes the Provincial ones and the Thoughts; Crow gives to France its more beautiful tragedy, Cid, and its first comedy, the Liar.
In art, Nicolas Chick and Lesueur are our first great painters.
2° the "Century of Louis XIV" is extraordinary by the number of the men of genius: in the literature, Racine gives tragedies such as Andromaque, Britannicus, Athalie, etc, and a comedy, the Litigants; The Molière, largest of the comic poets, gives the Misanthropist, the Sanctimonious hypocrite, the Middle-class man gentleman, etc; Boileau writes the Poetic Art and of the Epistles; The Fountain, of the Fables; Mrs.
de Sévigné, of the Letters; Rochefoucauld, Maxims; the Heather, Characters.
Bourdaloue, Bossuet, Massillon, Fénelon, are the largest speakers of the pulpit.
In arts, Claude Lorrain is the first of the landscape designers; Puget and Coustou of large sculptors; Mansard and Perrault, of large architects; Lully creates the Opera.
Descartes.
Pierre Crow.
Pascal.
Bourdaloue preaching before the…
Castle of Be worth…
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