Louis XIV (jul 14, 1643 – feb 19, 1715)

Description:

"L'etat, c'est moi"
- Absolute monarchs not
subordinate to national
assemblies
• Nobility reigned in
• Bureaucrats (17th C.) were
career officials and
answered only to monarch
• Maintained large standing
armies

DOMESTICATION OF NOBLES w/ VERSAILLES

Removed edict of Nantes
→Stop rebel nobility
→one religion of the state
-Military: Standing armies- more loyal, lots of debt
- edict of Fontanbleu
-Divine Right of Kings (Bossuet)
- "One king, one faith, one law"
- L'état c'est moi
- religious unity under catholicism
- sold noble titles, but nobles couldn't do the same
- mercantilism
-intendents
- taille tax
-war of spanish succession

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