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Succeeding the "Printer of the King" (Imprimeurs du roi) and "Printers of the King for the Greek Language" (Imprimeurs du roi pour le Grec) named by Francis I in the 1530s and 1540s during the French Renaissance, the "Royal Imprimery" or "Printing Office" (Imprimerie royale) was founded by Louis XIII in 1640 at the instigation of Cardinal ...
France. New Caledonia ( / ˌkælɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, [5] and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
The military branch of the Maison du Roi was the French Army Lifeguard brigade, made up of cavalry and infantry units. Officer rank was only open to gentlemen, though some of its units were drawn from elite troops among commoners in the rest of the army. It was not ceremonial and participated in all of France's 16th- and 17th-century campaigns.
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King ...
Premier peintre du Roi (First painter to the King) was the senior court painter position in France under the Ancien Régime. Pages in category "Premiers peintres du Roi" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Chambre du Roi. La Chambre du Roi ( French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃bʁ dy ʁwa] ), "the king's bedchamber"), has always been the central feature of the king's apartment in traditional French palace design [1] Ceremonies surrounding the daily life of the king — such as the levée (the ceremonial raising and dressing of the king held in the ...
Les Vélins du Roi ( The King's Vellums) is a compendium of 6984 plant and animal paintings started in 1631 to document specimens from the royal garden and animal collection. Foremost illustrators such as Nicolas Robert, Pancrace Bessa, Gerard van Spaendonck, Claude Aubriet and Madeleine Françoise Basseporte contributed to the codex through ...
The Premier peintre du Roi ( French pronunciation: [pʁəmje pɛ̃tʁ dy ʁwa]; First painter to the King) was a court painter position within the administration of the Bâtiments du Roi of the Département de la Maison du Roi in France under the Ancien Régime. Its holder occupied a similar position to that of Premier architecte du Roi (albeit ...