... his thirteenth birthday, and was crowned three years later on June 7, 1654. It was during this period, in February of 1653, that Louis first encountered Jean-Baptiste Lully. At 14 Lully had come to France and worked as page to cousin of Louis XIV until his prowess as dancer and mime was noticed by the ... to be known as the Sun King. This nickname stuck and is what he is remembered by. A person important to Louis XIV was Moliere, an actor, author and a director. Moliere was born in 1622 in Paris. In 1670, during a stay of Louis XIV in Chambord, he wrote Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and first...

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