Louis XIV
King of France from 1643 to 1715, whose reign was remembered as France's age of glory.
reigned 1643–1715
On restaurants, Paris, 1825
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Meditation 28 (first published December 1825), in the Flammarion edition of 1879 · published December 1825 (looking back to about 1770)
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138. — Vers 1770, après les jours glorieux de Louis XIV, les roueries de la régence et la longue tranquillité du ministère du cardinal Fleury, les étrangers n'avaient encore à Paris que bien peu de ressources sous le rapport de la bonne chère.
Around 1770, the glorious days of Louis XIV were over, and so were the rakish tricks of the Regency and the long calm of Cardinal Fleury’s ministry. Yet visitors to Paris still had very few places to eat well.