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Mornings. 8.30 am: the First Valet de Chambre woke the king with “Sire, it’s time to get up”. After a visit from the First Doctor and First Surgeon, the first getting-up ceremony began.
4 de feb. de 2019 · Louis XIV, King of France. While the mornings were a time for business and state matters, the afternoons were usually reserved for outdoor entertainment. After lunch, Louis might decide to walk around the grounds at Versailles, go hunting, or play other kinds of outdoor games.
The daily morning ritual of Louis XIV’s youth at the Louvre preserved the tradition in the use of the two bedrooms constructed by Henri IV. This is ritually and visibly consonant with Ernst Kantorowicz’s theory of the “King’s Two Bodies,” a formulation that opened a new perspective on the corporative image of a medieval monarch.
A day in the life of Louis XIV. DIRECTIONS: Read the questions that follow the reading. Read and annotate the account of the king’s daily routine, and as you come upon the answers, pause to write them down. Remember you can go back to add to an answer if you find further information in the reading.
Louis XIV looked out at his father’s old hunting lodge and envisioned a stronger, more unified and more magnificent France than the one he had inherited at the age of four. Now in his twenties and ruling on his own as an absolute monarch, he dreamed of building a palace of unparalleled opulence.
King Louis XIV ruled France for seventy-two years, the longest-reigning monarch in European history. He created a royal culture which not only stabilized his own monarchy but created a model which was followed by most of the rest of Europe.
Napoleon’s successor, Louis XVIII, revived the grand lever in its traditional form. Here is a description of how the ceremony was conducted. The king lay, not in his great bed, but in a smaller and very low one which was prepared for him and removed every morning.
