King Louis XIV was nicknamed "The Sun King." His face as the Sun King is on Versailles.

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Louis XIV chose the sun as his emblem. The sun was associated with Apollo, god of peace and arts, and was also the heavenly body which gave life to all things, regulating everything as it rose and set. Like Apollo, the warrior-king Louis XIV brought peace, was a patron of the arts, and dispensed his bounty. The regularity of his work habits and his ritual risings and retirings (levee and couchee) were another point of solar comparison. Throughout Versailles, decoration combines images and…

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The Sun King

On the anniversary of his death, get the facts on the so‑called Sun King.

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The Sun King, Versailles