He became king at the age of 4 and reigned for more than 70 years. Voltaire said that the 17th century belonged to him. Napoleon, exiled to St. Helena, called him the greatest of French kings. He made ...

This biography of Louis XIV, king of France (1643–1715), from historian Wilkinson (The Princes in the Tower), is an entertaining, if unnecessary, work that brings no new understanding of the ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles and took on the personal rule of his kingdom, becoming known as an absolute monarch. Show more In 1661 the 23 ...

On the 300th anniversary of the Sun King’s death, the writer of a forthcoming biography of France’s most celebrated monarch reflects on the spectacular flourishing of creativity in his reign, and on ...

RAUNCHY period drama Versailles is back on the BBC for a third series. And playing the sex-crazed and brawling French King Louis XIV is stage and film actor George Blagden. Here’s all you need to know ...

For nearly all 115 minutes of “The Death of Louis XIV,” the hypnotically grueling new film from the Catalan writer-director Albert Serra, we are peering into a royal bedchamber at 18th century ...