Introduction to Louis XIV

In class on Tuesday we started our lessons on absolute rulers in 17th century Europe. One of these rulers was Louis XIV of France, and while many of us know him as the man responsible for the building of Versialles, his strong interest in the arts resulted in the coining of many french ballet terms. Ballet emerged in the late fifteenth-century Renaissance court culture of Italy as a dance interpretation of fencing, and further developed in the French court from the time of Louis XIV in the 17th century. Thank you Lauren Kolodkin for sharing with our class your knowledge & talent concerning ballet.