Louis XIV by Julia Walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n Made with a quick smile en-us 2018-09-20 15:43:33 UTC 2025-11-23 17:34:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Politics 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620494
  • "Louis XIV appeared to many of his subjects to place his personal interests above his country's, as his goal was to defend the right of his grandson, Philip V, to inherit the Spanish Empire."
  • Made France a superpower
  • Known as the "Sun King"
]]> 2018-09-25 15:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620494 Economics 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620634 "With the help of his finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV established reforms that cut France's deficit and promoted industrial growth."

"Louis XIV managed to improve France's disorganized system of taxation and limit formerly haphazard borrowing practices"

"..conveniently declared members of nobility exempt from paying taxes, causing them to become even more fiscally dependent on the crown."

]]> 2018-09-25 15:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620634 Religion 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620705 “God given right to rule”, he may do as he pleases but god would hold him for the well being of his country

Thought to be "divinely chosen"

"Louis XIV orchestrated the destruction of Protestant churches and schools throughout France and forced all children to be educated and baptized as Catholics."]]> 2018-09-25 16:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620705 social 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620795 "forced provincial nobles to relinquish their former political influence. In so doing, he constructed a more centralized administration with the bourgeoisie, or middle class, as its foundation."



]]> 2018-09-25 16:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620795 Military 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620921 Used his highly discipline army to enforce policies at home and abroad

"engaged his country in the Franco-Dutch War from 1672 to 1678, during which France managed to acquire more land in Flanders and the Franche-Compté.


]]> 2018-09-25 16:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620921 Ideas 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620994 "begun to generate public hostility, due, in part, to his efforts to establish religious uniformity throughout France. The king was a devout Catholic, and his persecution of the Huguenots came to a head with his 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had formerly granted the Huguenots rights as a religious majority"]]> 2018-09-25 16:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/285620994 Arts 2020_julia_walsh https://padlet.com/2020_julia_walsh/xzbyyy8jbr2n/wish/287359089 Turned a local hunting lodge in to the palace of Versailles 

created a number of programs and institutes to infuse more of the arts into French culture.

had Colbert oversee the construction of the Paris Observatory from 1667 to 1672.



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“Louis XIV.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 28 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/people/louis-xiv-9386885.In-text Citation

Text book-
Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor., and Anthony Esler. Prentice Hall World History. Pearson, 2011.In-text Citation








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