Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Louis XIV
1638 – 1715
French

The "Sun King." He personified power, splendor, and selfishness.

Contemporaries
1580–1660St. Vincent de Paul
1694–1778Voltaire
1626–1696Madame de Sévigné
1675–1755Louis Saint-Simon
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1585–1642Armand Richelieu
1614–1679Cardinal de Retz
1626–1700Armand Rancé
1588–1665Catherine de Vivonne Rambouillet
1697–1763l'Abbé Prévost
1628–1703Charles Perrault
1623–1662Blaise Pascal
1627–1693Anne Montpensier
1689–1755Charles Montesquieu
1712–1759Louis Montcalm
1622–1673Molière
?–1672Jean Martinet
1638–1715Nicolas Malebranche
1620–1705Ninon de Lenclos
1610–1674Jean de Labadie
1709–1751Julien La Mettrie
1613–1680François La Rochefoucauld
1621–1665Jean La Fontaine
1645–1696Jean de La Bruyère
1577–1638Père Joseph
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1648–1717Jeanne Marie Guyon
1592–1655Pierre Gassendi
1657–1757Bernard Fontenelle
1643–1670Claude Duval
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1596–1650René Descartes
1715–1780Étienne Condillac
1698–1762Jean Calas
1707–1788Georges-Louis Buffon
1616–1680Antoinette Bourignon
1627–1704Jacques Bossuet
1636–1711Nicolas Boileau
1636–1705Pierre Beauchamp
1647–1706Pierre Bayle
1612–1694Antoine Arnauld