Louis+XIV's+reign

**versailles:**

 * =====Louis spent untold sums on palace=====
 * =====housed members of govt. and served as a home for nobles=====
 * =====source of envy from other rulers=====
 * =====residence for king=====
 * =====reception halls for state affairs=====
 * =====symbol for French absolutist state and king's power=====
 * =====nobility served as servants to the king=====

**policies:**

 * =====replaced Fouquet with colbert=====
 * =====controlled govt.=====
 * =====replaced nobility with new aristocrats he could easily control=====
 * =====Edict of Fontainbleau- against protestant faith=====
 * =====weak mercantilistic policies=====
 * =====raised taille to fund wars=====

**wars:**

 * =====First war vs. Triple Alliance (Dutch, English and Swedes)=====
 * =====Dutch war-gained Franche-comte, encouraging his lust for more land=====
 * =====war of the league of Augsburg-annexed Alsace and Lorraine=====
 * =====War of the Spanish Succession=====

**Effects:**

 * =====more war led to more tax on people=====
 * =====overspending on palace and wars=====
 * =====lost lives, respect and glory because of war=====