#louis xiv

[illustratus]

Le Roy Soleil (The Sun King) illustration by Maurice Leloir

Louis XIV in costume as Apollo in the Ballet de la Nuit

[livesunique]

Chateau de Balleroy, Calvados, Normandy, France,

Photography by @co.versailles

[thegoldensanctuary]

THE BOULLE MARQUETRY SET IS OUT!

*enable the sound on the video for some Lully*

You can Download it here

Public release on the 15th of November

Includes 6 Boulle marquetry cabinets or desk based on those made by André-Charles Boulle or Nicolas Sageot between 1690 and 1710. Each of the items features 5 swatches based on exiting historical variations. 

The Louis XIV bust featured in the video as well as the other busts are by @thejim07

The folding stools aren't included in this set but will be in my next one.

Important : you will have to follow this tutorial to get decent quality textures on any of my sets.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 46: Early Modernish and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[kathrynhoward]

Aramis holding the Dauphin 2.02 | Aramis holding the King 3.10 THE MUSKETEERS (2014-2016)

[earlgodwin]

"On the field, I saw a man, young like we were. He carried his brother in a sack over his shoulder. He told me he had promised their mother to take him home. Would you do that for me? I would, but you? I do not know."

[kristeenwowart]

17th century dress inspired by my beloved Versailles royal court fashion. It's mostly handsewn, made out of satin and trimmed with lace. It was the first serious historical costume i have ever made. And to be honest, my favourite one <3

Hair, makeup, model and photo by me <33

[masterbaiting]

remember when versailles came out and george blagden was playing king louis xiv of france and les mis tumblr was chomping at the bit climbing up the walls they were like imagine you are this drunken green son of a fuck grantaire in love with a man who is in love with the revolution and you wake up hungover in the dirty streets of paris with memories in your head of being the sun king, of building a glittering palace

[onmarswesail]

A few VFV memes because I have a huge book hangover after finishing it. I can't get over Prince Philippe 🥲

[anneeeboleyn]

renée de noailles from vying from versailles is the cuntiest woman to ever exist. she removed louise de la valliere from court and became the maîtresse-en-titre in her debut season at the ripe age of twenty.

then she proceeded to single handedly save the dauphin of france, frame and execute françois-athénaïs, madame de montespan and chevalier lou de rohan at the ripe age of twenty one.

now at twenty three, she's a duchess with her own retinue, with a new found relationship with hunger for power and corruption, a pro supporter of war.

truly serving cunt.

[felixwhetsel]

Continuing my journey of redrawing old costumes, we have Louis XIV's sun king. I tried to draw him closer to how he looked in portraits from around the same time

[cy-lindric]

Louis, Anne, Philippe, Mazarin, Beaufort, and most importantly, Pistache

[livesunique]

Château de Balleroy, Calvados, Normandy, France,

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 51, 18 décembre 1892, Paris. Toilettes de bal. Modèles de chez Mmes Coussinet-Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Dos de la robe-Empire. Dos de la robe de bal pour jeune fille. Dos de la robe de soie crème brodée d'or. Dos de la robe en damas et mousseline de soie. Dos de la robe en tulle pour jeune fille. Dos de la robe Louis XV.

Toilette en soie glaçée. Toilette-Empire. Robe de bal pour jeune fille. Robe en damas et mousseline de soie. Robe en tulle pour jeune fille. Robe Louis XV. Robe en soie crème brodée d'or. Robe en mousseline brodée pour jeune fille. Robe de bal Empire. Robe Louis XIV.

[denerdnr]

CHÂTEAU DE CLAGNY Last Part - Interiors

Finally the last part of Château de Clagny! :) I love 17th century France, Versailles and the incredible court of French kings. I intend to do more constructions from this period in the future, but my next post will undoubtedly be something much smaller :P

Appartements de Madame de Montespan Antichambre

Grand Cabinet

Cabinet

Chambre de Madame de Montespan

Cabinet des Livres

Thanks to @labuenosairesfrancaise, @reboniroyalsims and @thegoldensanctuary (and the wonderful conversations I have with each of them) and also to so many other creators and their beautiful CC.

[thegoldensanctuary]

4th Version of my updated Grand King's Bedchamber Bed under Louis XV.

This is the summer bed received in 1723 when Louis XV returned to Versailles, the summer furnitures from his predecessor the sun king were missing as they were gifted to the duke of Tresmes at his death in 1715. A new summer set was received and given the number 2200 by the Garde Meuble. It was actually made from some older brocades received in 1688, and given the numbers 123,132,133,134. In 1723 Lallié retouched them and sent them back to the garde meuble under the new number 2200. In this post I won't go into the details about my choices when designing the updated version of that brocade as I will in a future post. I will just focus on the bed which I made sticking as much as possible to the description from the 1723 garde meuble entry.