Nobles louis xiv biography book

This is the story of Louis XIV, who ruled for 72 years, longer than any other king in history. His word was law and he stood as the supreme embodiment of Absolute Monarchy both in its strength and in its ultimate fatal weakness. Unswervingly his reign was dedicated to grandeur, both for himself and for France. Using advisors from the middle class, he solidified his power over the great nobles. Reforming the army, he extended France's borders, winning through diplomacy what he could not by arms. Under his patronage, French literature and art became the model for the Western world, and his palace at Versailles seemed to crown his triumph, dazzling all Europe with its splendor.

In his ambition, however, lay the seeds of distraction. The homage he demanded made his aides flatterers rather than administrators, while his scorn of finances ate away at the foundations of his state. His persecution of the French Huguenots forced the mass exodus of an important segment of the population, and, finally, his military campaigns brought France to the brink of ruin. Only a last minute stroke of good fortune staved off disaster.

Though he had plunged the nation into more than half a century of warfare, ironically, he left this piece of advice to his successors—to try to keep the peac

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The Sun King: Louis Ordinal at Versailles

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King Louis XIV: A Life from Beginning to End

He was born on September 5, 1638, in the French lap of luxury otherwise known as the Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This extravagant palace of French excess is located about 12 miles west of Paris. His birth name, Louis-Dieudonne, is French for, literally, "gift for God". This belief of divine right, initially inspired by his mother, Queen Anne, would be a powerful theme throughout Louis XIV’s life.

In this book you will learn about....

• "The Conflict of Kings"
• "War and Marriage"
• "The Noose Tightens"
• "The Scorched Earth of Louis XIV"
• "The Balance of Power"
• "Louis’s Last Stand"
• "The Death of the King"
• And much more!

Although he didn’t create absolutism in France, King Louis XIV seemed to embody the divine right of kings better than anyone had before him. Louis XIV directly correlated his own private good with that of the public good. There was really no concept of private property under Louis. The French king viewed all of France as his personal estate, with all who lived and toiled in his domain doing so only under his express permission; even so, not everyone in France had the same sentiment.

The ones who most notably resisted the notion of the king’s absolutism were the French nobles and aristocrats that Louis depe