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Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line
RFI
The first of five carriages decorated with reproductions of the château's world-famous royal apartments built by Louis XIV, Louis XVI's library and similar sumptuous scenes started running Wednesday. The others will all be in operation by the end of ...

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Do the Real Housewives Remind You of Louis XIV?
Slate Magazine
By Simon Doonan|Posted Monday, May 14, 2012, at 6:08 AM ET Once upon a time, fake hair looked real. This period did not last long. Around the turn of the century—I'm talking 1990s here, not 1890s—hairdressers had begun to deploy those now-ubiquitous ...

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President, to president, to president
Los Angeles Times
It didn't matter that Truman thought Hoover was "to the right of Louis XIV," he said. They never talked about politics anyway because they had something more important in common. "We talked," Truman said, "about what it was like being president.

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CBS News
Restaurant fundraisers promote pet causes
CBS News
... pet grooming and pet adoption, and donations are being made through wines featuring Frenchie on the label dressed as historical figures — current releases include the 2009 Frenchie Napoleon Red Blend and 2009 Frenchie Louis XIV Cabernet Sauvignon.

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Meet 'The Miser'
Seacoastonline.com
Set in the opulent era of Louis XIV, the play takes aim at greed and through high comedy and witty wisdom, reminds us that "all that glistens is not gold." The ensemble cast features Colby Harrison as the miserable miser Harpagon who plans to marry his ...


 
Le Supplici extends the vocabulary of modern dance as inspired by cartography
Philippine Star
One surmised further how choreographer Fabrizio Favale, inspired by the old maps done by Vincenzo Coronelli for Louis XIV, would interpret the “houses, men and even their actions and wanderings and then the animals, the trees.


 
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Crystal Says Ahoy! To Seven New European Ports This Summer
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Louis XIV's marital stomping grounds, puffins' Icelandic party pad, a former Prussian capital, Napoleon's birthplace, and the gateway to Norway's most scenic vistas are among seven European ...
Crystal says Ahoy to seven new European ports this summereTurboNews

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