How would you describe their relationship, the king and the cardinal? I would describe it as complicated. I think the cardinal has Louis’s best interests at heart - or rather he has France's ...

He named it after France’s King Louis XIII, who was the first monarch to recognise cognac as a category of brandy in its own right. Since then, generations of cellar masters have used extraordinary ...

Louis XIV was the first to be born alive to his parents King Louis XIII of France and Ann of Austria. The King and the Queen had lived together for 23 years without a child after all four children ...