Louis+XIV

Alex Grigoriev


 * What were Louis XIV's goals as a ruler and how did he seek to achieve them? **

__Things Louix XIV did/wanted to do__: 1. wanted to be the king and sole ruler of France, declared in a speech 2. wanted to be known as the Sun King 3. wanted no one to think they had even close to the amount of power he had 4. Had less success in internal administration 5. Carefully bribed officials to gain more control 6. strove for religious harmony 7. acquire land through war not diplomacy 8. improve economy by luring artisans to France 9. improve communications through new roads and canals 10. Set the standard for monarchial structures and magnificence

__Methods of Louis XIV__: 1. held power through an absolute monarchy 2. removed threats from the high nobility by replacing them with easily controllable people 3. created the palace of Versailles to flaunt power Controlled: (4-8) 4. central policy-making machinery of France; which allowed control of the things(4-8) listed below 5. formulation of foreign policy 6. the making of war and peace 7. the assertion of the secular power of the crown against any religious authority 8. the ability to levy taxes to fulfill his actions 9. antagonized huguenots so they would become Catholic 10. Colbert funded Louis XIV policies through mercantilism

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