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François Le Vau
French architect
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Louis XIV
King of France from 1643 to 1715
"Sun King" and "Le Roi Soleil" redirect here. For the French musical about Louis XIV, see Le Roi Soleil (musical). For other uses, see Sun King (disambiguation) and Louis XIV (disambiguation).
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Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 | |||
| Reign | 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 | ||
| Coronation | 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral | ||
| Predecessor | Louis XIII | ||
| Successor | Louis XV | ||
| Regent | Anne of Austria (1643–1651) | ||
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| Born | (1638-09-05)5 September 1638 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France | ||
| Died | 1 September 1715(1715-09-01) (aged 76) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France | ||
| Burial | 9 September 1715 Basilica of Saint-Denis | ||
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| House | Bourbon | ||
| Father | Louis XIII | ||
| Mother | Anne of Austria | ||
| Religion • This article is a part of our “Revolutionary Animals” series, which examines the roles of animals in revolution, representations of revolutionary animals, and the intersections between representation and the lived experiences of animals.By Peter SahlinsIn the first decade of his long reign, and well before the court was installed at Versailles in 1682, Louis XIV established two distinctive animal collections in the palace gardens. The first was the Royal Menagerie, a pavilion designed by the architect Louis Le Vau in 1663 at the edge of the park on the road to Saint-Cyr, with its seven courtyards populated by 1668 with thousands of exotic and domestic animals, mostly birds. The second was the Royal Labyrinth, designed by André le Nôtre. An irregular garden maze also planted in 1663, the Labyrinth was populated between 1672 and 1674 with 39 fountains and some 330 polychromatic lead sculptures of animals enacting fables “drawn from Aesop.” The history of these two animal collections has hardly been ignored, but they are rarely considered together, especially in the context of Louis XIV’s early efforts to construct a model of absolute authority in the gardens of Versailles.[1] Literary descriptions and visual culture represented the Menagerie as an animal palace, a respl | |||