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To: Cincinna
I am pretty sure I had my tongue planted squarely in my cheek when I wrote that post. I should have used a /s?

No one with a brain would confuse Louis the 14th with anything sexual. Not hetrosexual, anyway.

/johnny

13 posted on 09/07/2009 3:53:53 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Louis XIV was definitely hetero, and quite a womanizer in his early years.

You may be confusing him with Henri III.

Henri III
Henri III, 1551-89, was elected king of Poland in 1573 but returned to France in 1574 to succeed his brother Charles IX. His reign was almost continually disturbed by the Wars of Religion. The death in 1584 of his brother François made him the last male member of the House of Valois. His recognition of Henri de Navarre (later Henri IV) as heir presumptive was opposed by Henri, 3rd Duc de Guise, head of the Catholic League (the “War of the Three Henrys” resulted). Having procured the murder of Guise (1588), the king was faced with a revolt of the League and was expelled from Paris. Henri de Navarre came to his aid, but Henri III was assassinated in the siege by Jacques Clément, a fanatic monk. —Columbia-Viking desk encyclopedia, 1953
Henri III is something of an historical enigma. The beautiful sketches of the royal family by Clouet show a young man with compellingly soulful eyes; later there is a certain haunted quality to them. He was the military hero of Jarnac and Montcontour (notable royal victories over the Huguenots), a keen blade and afficionado of the fence, who occasionally dressed in women’s clothing and whose taste for luxury was considered the height of decadence. He kept a retinue of “mignons” — his fanatically loyal courtiers, pretty boys with sharp swords who picked duels with the retainers of his enemies. He was sincerely, if intermittently, religious, establishing congregations of Penitents in Paris and walking barefoot in their processions, flagellating himself (there is a certain masochistic quality to his outbreaks of piety). In 1577 he gave the Protestants all the rights they would later have in the Edict of Nantes in 1598, although these were annulled over the years under pressure from the Catholic wing. In the end he valued blood ties over religion, and named Henri de Navarre his heir on his deathbed. History remembers him as an indolent “Prince of Sodom”, but he was the most intelligent and capable of Catherine’s brood


18 posted on 09/07/2009 4:15:39 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
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