2.Right to rule .

3.Wanted to make France number one .

4.Made France a superpower.

France was a model for others to follow.

5.Called the Sun King.

established his country as the dominant European power.

2.Constructed a more centralized administration for the middle class.

3.Established reforms and promoted industrial growth.

2.Called the Sun God.

 3.In 1685, the devoutly Catholic king revoked the Edict of Nantes, issued by his grandfather Henry IV in 1598, which had granted freedom of worship and other rights to French Protestants (known as Huguenots).

2.he transformed the monarchy, ushered in a golden age of art and literature.

2.Believed in the divine right to rule 

3.He viewed himself as the direct representative of God.

appreciated art, literature, music, theater and sports. 
2.He surrounded himself with some of the greatest artistic and intellectual figures of his time, including the playwright Molière.

 3.He transformed a royal hunting lodge in Versailles, a village 25 miles southwest of the capital, into one of the largest palaces in the world, officially moving his court and government there in 1682. 

2.Fought against Catholics

3.Beginning in 1648, their discontent erupted into a civil war known as the Fronde, which forced the royal family to flee Paris.