The Grand Palais in Paris has presented 32 carpets commissioned under King Louis XIV, bringing together a group of works that had never previously been displayed in this scale and sequence. The exhibition, titled Le Trésor retrouvé du Roi-Soleil (The Rediscovered Treasure of the Sun King) , examines the role of these carpets within the visual and political programme developed during the king’s reign. The carpets were produced between 1668 and 1688 by the Savonnerie manufactor