Louis Quatorze
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Louis Qua·torze
(kă-tôrz') 
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the baroque style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XIV.
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the baroque style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XIV.
[French.]
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Louis Quatorze
Style of French Baroque and Classical architecture of the reign of King Louis XIV (1643–1715), beginning in the 1660s. Its great monuments are the Churches of the Sorbonne and the Val-de-Grâce, the Institut de France, and the east front of the Louvre, all in Paris, and, of course, the Château of Versailles.
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