LouisXIV

The life and times of Louis XIV Louis XIV ruled France from 1651 until his death in 1715 (Bernier, Foreward). Louis XIV was on one the most well-known monarchs in France and in Europe. "When twentieth-century men speak of a king, the image that usually comes to mind is Charlemange or Louis XIV; no other rulers so completely dominated their lands both in their own times and in the memory of posterity." (Wolf, ix). He is portrayed …

…seventy-two years, three months and eighteen days. (Panicucci 74). Through seventy-two of his seventy-seven years of life, Louis had occupied the throne of France, he had presided over the most illustrious period in French history, the Age of Louis XIV. Under his sway, he had created the modern state, centrally organized, bureaucratically administered, concerned mostly with conquest but also with economic and cultural progress. From that background arouse the national governments of our own time. (Aspler 181).