Example sentences of "of louis [num] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A century later , it had an adoptive daughter to weep for : 20-year-old Marie Mancini , niece of Louis XIV 's minister Mazarin . |
| 2 | The Casa Republicii was the symbol of Ceauşescu 's indifference to the well-being of the current generation of Romanians as much as Versailles was the embodiment of Louis XIV 's quest for glory regardless of the sufferings of his own people . |
| 3 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |
| 4 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 5 | The king 's appearance in the Mâcunnais revived ancient memories of Louis IV 's visit in 950 , which his successor exploited effectively , stressing the justice of his cause and the royal obligation to suppress evil . |
| 6 | As husband of Louis VII 's sister , Constance , Raymond of Toulouse could count on help from his brother-in-law . |
| 7 | The chief ecclesiastical adviser of Louis VI 's later years , and of the opening phase of Louis VII 's reign , was Suger , the abbot of Saint-Denis , who held no formal office , except during the Second Crusade , when he was regent in the king 's absence . |
| 8 | What marked Suger out from other pseudo-Dionysians was firstly , that he translated his abstractions into concepts directly relevant to French politics in his own time , and secondly that he proclaimed his views in the influential Life of Louis VI , written in the early years of Louis VII 's reign . |
| 9 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 10 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |