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The 1670s: 1670–1679
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Louis XIV moved the French court to Versailles while his armies bullied Holland and Spain. In England, the Popish Plot panic of 1678 sent innocent Catholics to the scaffold, and Bunyan published The Pilgrim's Progress the same year.
1678 produced both a panic and a pilgrim's book. Gérard Depardieu's Vatel serves three days of feasts at Chantilly in 1671, and Dumas's The Black Tulip schemes around a flower craze in the Holland of 1672. Open the 1670s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 1670s
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Browse 12 books and 3 movies set in the 1670s (1670–1679).
Vatel
In 1671 with war brewing with Holland a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general so the extravagances are to impress the king.…
The Pilgrim's Progress
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of…
Hypochondriac
During the year 1673 Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
The Revolution of the Moon
"From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series, the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes before being cast out in a coup after only…
Алтын-Толобас
A Mosca, in una casa alquanto singolare, una cantina cela un tesoro favoloso. Un segreto condiviso solo da due persone, una delle quali adesso giace cadavere a pochi metri da quella raccolta inestimabile. L'altra,…
The Black Tulip
'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever!' Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a…
Lorna Doone
First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a…
The Long Shadow
1670 - Charles II and James IIMorland Place has flourished under Ralph's stewardship, while Annunciata is a great lady of the Court. Splendid futures seem to be promised for her children; but the religious rift opened…
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la façon de vivre et le comportement des nobles.
Le Malade imaginaire
Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s'agit d'une comédie-ballet en trois actes.Dans la satire outrageante de Molière sur la médecine et ses praticiens…
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