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...hadn't been abandoned." One wonders why it ever was after tasting his fillet of sole with Paris mushrooms, based on the Normandy sole first served in the 1830s on Rue Montorgeuil; his lamb chops Champvallon-style, said to have been created by a mistress of Louis XIV to seduce him; or his fricassee of Gâtinais chicken with artichoke and potatoes, a modern take on the dish served in 1790 at Le Cabaret du Père Lathuille, the establishment immortalized by Manet...
Sooner or later, most administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared--"I am the state." To criticize becomes downright unpatriotic...
Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - "I am the state." To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic...
...world." Through extensive experimentation, he developed the méthode champenoise, a series of techniques to produce a clear, effervescent wine. On tasting his creation, Pérignon reportedly exclaimed, "I'm drinking stars." His contemporaries must have agreed. Before long, Pérignon's Champagne was the toast of Louis XIV's Versailles and inextricably entwined with the escapades that went on there...
...investigation process; and canonization, the pope's formal recognition that a person is truly a saint. In each case the argument for sainthood would be rebutted by a Devil's Advocate, a person appointed by the Church to argue against the case for sainthood. Before becoming pontiff, Pope Benedict XIV was one of the foremost Devil's Advocates of the 18th century. It wasn't until 1983 that a revised Code of Canon Law was published that included reforms to the canonization process begun in 1913. Under Pope John Paul II the procedures for investigating and recognizing a saint were...