A Multi-Slide Presentation with Music and Narration
by Albert Fuller

This visual essay on the personality of Louis XIV was composed to open the Fifth Aston Magna Academy of 1982 -- "Music, Art, Theatre and Dance in the Age of Louis XIV (1661-1715)" -- sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The special photography and research necessary for its preparation were carried out in situ at the invitation of M. Pierre Lemoine, Conservateur en Chef of Château de Versailles. This visit was made possible by the encouragement of William Gudenrath, Robert Light, Donald Outerbridge, Gregory B. Smith and Miss Alice Tully. The foresight and generosity of these friends in 1981 formed the nucleus that gathered the present Helicon Network.

To commemorate the twentieth anniversay of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Mr. Fuller presented "The Reign of Fame" to the public at the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution on November 22, 1983. It will be presented again as the opening event of the E. Nakamichi Baroque Music Festival in Schönberg Hall at UCLA on June 23, 1986. One of the Helicon Foundation's goals is to bring this essay, and its companion, "Thomas Jefferson: His Vision of the American Dream", to a broad, national audience.

Mark Golderman, artist/photographer, has created especially for this purpose the greater part of the images projected here. His photographs were conceived to reflect the emblematic and psychological context of the subject matter and to be propulsive, communicative art works in their own right.