VERSAILLES, France — In curator Béatrix Saule’s extensive exhibition Le Roi Est Mort (“The King Is Dead”), the Palace of Versailles is presenting a shaggy-dog narrative about the death of Louis XIV.

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Louis XIV, like politicians of today, knew the value of controlling his public image. Throughout his over 70-year reign, the French king directed a self-portrait campaign in medals — the petite ...

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Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 279 (Sale info: For Sale). During the minority of Louis XIV of France, the regency was conducted by his mother, Anne of Austria, widow of Louis XIII. She, ...