A scene depicting the death of King Louis XIV, from the 2016 movie The Death of Louis XIV.  Death came slow and painful for King Louis XIV. He was king for 72 …

What the French Royals Ate Sometime in the early 1930s, a strip of parchment paper dated January 21, 1552 was exhibited in London. It speaks of a one-d…

Portrait of Madame Adélaïde by Jean-Marques Nattier. Image from Wikimedia Commons Marie Adélaïde de France was born on March 23, 1732 at the Palace of…

Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette. Image: Flickr “Let them eat cake” is a phrase mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette, France’s most notoriou…

A portrait of Marie Leszczyńska by  Jean-Marc Nattier. Source: Wikimedia Commons Marie Leszczynska , Queen Consort of France, was born in Trzebnica, nea…

Louis XIV, who ruled France from 1643 until 1715, left his immortal stamp in the form of the Palace of Versailles, the enormous and splendid structure nam…

A portrait of Marie Antoinette by  Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. Secret letters published for the first time have revealed that two of Marie …

Yolande of Aragon As the early-morning sun reaches the tops of the towers of Saragossa, the time has come for Yolande, only surviving child of the King …

Louis Philippe, King of the French Louis Philip was the eldest son of Louis Philippe Joseph, duke of Orleans (known during the Revolution as Philippe Eg…

Empress Eugenie surrounded by her ladies-in-waiting, a painting by Franz Xavier Winterhalter. Source: Wikipedia Madrid, July 11, 1920 - Europe's Que…