Louis Xiv Blue Bust

Absolute authority: chin up, proud bust, and a contemptuous attitude—the Sun King rules. Immortalized in a 7-meter-high monumental sculpture by François Girardon (1699), the Louis XIV à cheval took centre stage at Place Vendôme before the statue was raised to the ground in 1792, during the French Revolution. Today a resident of the Musée du Louvre, the bust still stands tall, reproduced in a smaller scale. An iconic royal figure and messenger of