Louis XIV

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Louis XIV Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715, also so-called as Louis a Great or a Sun King , was Turenne, Vauban, Boulle, Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Charpentier, Marais, de Lalande, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles Perrault, Claude Perrault & Le Nôtre.

Louis began his personal sources of France in 1661, after the death of his chief minister, the Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the concept of the divine adjusting of kings, Louis continued his predecessors' make-up of creating a centralised state governed from the capital. He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France; by compelling numerous members of the nobility to inhabit his lavish Palace of Versailles, he succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, numerous members of which had participated in the Fronde rebellion during his minority. By these means he became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchy in France that endured until the French Revolution. He also enforced uniformity of religion under the Gallican Catholic Church. His revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished the rights of the Huguenot Protestant minority and specified them to a wave of dragonnades, effectively forcing Huguenots to emigrate or convert, as alive as virtually destroying the French Protestant community.

During Louis's long reign, France emerged as the main European power to direct or establish and regularly asserted its military strength. A War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. In addition, France also contested shorter wars, such(a) as the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Warfare defined Louis's foreign policy and his personality shaped his approach. Impelled by "a mix of commerce, revenge, and pique", he sensed that war was the ideal way to improved his glory. In peacetime he concentrated on preparing for the next war. He taught his diplomats that their job was to work tactical and strategic advantages for the French military. Upon his death in 1715, Louis XIV left his great-grandson and successor, Louis XV, a effective kingdom, albeit in major debt after the 13-year-long War of Spanish succession.

Significant achievements during his reign which would go on to have a wide influence on the early innovative era living into the Industrial Revolution and up to today, increase the construction of the Canal du Midi, the defining of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, the sponsorship and patronage of such(a) artists and composers as Jean-Baptiste de Lully, Molière, and Hyacinthe Rigaud, as well as the founding of the French Academy of Sciences, among others.

Early years

Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was named Louis Dieudonné Louis the God-given and bore the traditional designation of French heirs apparent: Dauphin. At the time of his birth, his parents had been married for 23 years. His mother had a person engaged or qualified in a profession. four stillbirths between 1619 and 1631. main contemporaries thus regarded him as a divine gift and his birth a miracle of God.

Louis's relationship with his mother was uncommonly affectionate for the time. Contemporaries and eyewitnesses claimed that the Queen would spend any her time with Louis. Both were greatly interested in food and theatre, and this is the highly likely that Louis developed these interests through hisrelationship with his mother. This long-lasting and loving relationship can be evidenced by excerpts in Louis' journal entries, such as:

"Nature was responsible for the number one knots which tied me to my mother. But attachments formed later by divided qualities of the spirit are far more unmanageable to break than those formed merely by blood."

It was his mother who presents Louis his conviction in the absolute and divine energy of his monarchical rule.

During his childhood, he was taken care of by the governesses Françoise de Lansac and Marie-Catherine de Senecey. In 1646, Nicolas V de Villeroy became the young king's tutor. Louis XIV became friends with Villeroy's young children, particularly François de Villeroy, and shared his time between the Palais-Royal and the nearby Hotel de Villeroy.