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CHAPTER 5 SECTION 2
The Reign of Louis XIV
RELIGIOUS WARS AND
POWER STRUGGLES
Henry Navarre•
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Descended from Louis IX
was the first king of the Bourbon Dynasty (Henry IV)
Gave up Protestantism- “Paris is well worth a mass.”
Spent time rebuilding peace and prosperity for France
Is stabbed to death b/c of religious compromises
Edict of Nantes
• Huguenots would set up their own houses of worship in certain cities.
* What did the Edict of Nantes do and how did it lead to Henry IV death?
LOUIS XIII AND
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
Louis XIII was a weak king but appointed strong
minister
Cardinal Richelieu• 2 main things to increase the Monarchy’s Power
• 1. Moved against the Huguenots
• 2. Weakened the nobles’ power
• Involved France in the Thirty Years War
CARDINAL RICHLIEU
LOUIS XIV COMES TO
POWER
Louis XIV- Most powerful ruler in French history
• “L’etat c’est moi.”
Louis the Boy King
• Is only fourteen- real ruler Cardinal Mazarin
• Anti- Mazarin riots – Louis’ life threatened
Louis Weakens the Nobles’ Authority
• Excludes nobles from councils
• Increased power of intendants- collected taxes and administered justice.
Jean Baptist Colbert- Louis’ minister of finance
• Believed in Mercantilism and wanted to make France self Sufficient
Why did Louis XIV want to decrease
Noble’s power? And How did he
accomplish this?
After Colbert’s death Louis cancels Edict of Nantes
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Slows economic progress b/c artisans and business
people leave the country
LOUIS XIV
THE SUN KING’S GRAND
STYLE
Louis surrounds himself with luxury
Louis controls the Nobility
• Nobles lived at the Palace, and had the “honor” of waiting on Louis
• Having nobles live there made them dependant on the king an took them
away from home
• Versailles like a small royal city-showed power
Patronage of the Arts
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Louis a Huge supporter of the arts
Moliere-Tartuffe
Danced in the Ballet The Sun King
Purpose of art to glorify the King
VERSAILLES
LOUIS FIGHTS
DISASTROUS WARS
Under Louis France is most powerful country in Europe
Attempts to expand Frances’s Boundaries
• 1667 Louis expands into Spanish Netherlands and gains 12
towns
• 1672 Goes into Dutch Netherlands- very few gains, flood the
countryside
• By end of 1680s other countries of Europe came together to
match France’s power
• The people suffered b/c of poor harvests and high taxes for
war
LOUIS FIGHTS
DISASTROUS WARS
The War of Spanish Succession
• 1700 Charles II dies w/out an heir= promised the throne to Louis grandson
Phillip Anjou.
• Other countries threatened
• Ban together and fight the Spanish War of Succession
• War drags on until 1714
• End result
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Phillip Anjou could remain king as long as the thrones were not united
Hapsburgs get Spanish Netherlands
Prussia and Savoy recognized kingdoms
Britain- Gained Gibraltar and gained permission to send African slaves to the
American Colonies from Spain
• France gave them Nova Scotia and Newfoundland