Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy

Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy

"The character and position of Louis XIV are peculiarly difficult to estimate, partly on account of the attitude taken towards him during his life-time by his own subjects, partly owing to the entire misapprehension under which foreign nations laboured as to his real aims. The French people during more than two-thirds of his long reign made him into a god and worshipped him, while at the time of the Spanish Succession war a generation had grown up in England which regarded Louis XIV as a monster of ambition with a mission from the devil to make slaves and Papists of the whole human race, a perfidious tyrant... Louis has certainly as great a claim as Napoleon to be considered a hero. He, at any rate, left his country holding a powerful position in Europe, and when he died he could boast that his foes had never entered Paris..." - Arthur Hassall

Contents: Opening Years of the Reign, 1643-1651. First Experiences of War and Politics, 1651-1661. Louis XIV Rules, 1661-1715. The Fall of Fouquet and the Rise of Colbert, 1661. Louis' Foreign Policy to the End of the Devolution War, 1662-1668. The War of 1672, 1672-1678. The Taking of Strasburg, 1681. The Truce of Ratisbon, 1684. The Year 1685. The League and the War of Augsburg, 1686-1697. Versailles and the Provinces, 1678-1700. The Spanish Succession Question, 1697-1700. The Spanish Succession War, 1702-1713. Peace, 1709-1713. The End, 1714-1715.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lecturable
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lecturable
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-03
Format	Kindle eBook

Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy

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