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When Louis XIV was just 4 and a half years old, his father passed away. Not much more than a toddler,
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Louis XIV mom died at an old age
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Louis XIV was ultimately directed into a marriage that was a political, rather than a romantic, union by wedding the daughter of Spain’s King Philip IV, Marie-Thérèse
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Louis takes control of the government by himself. He does this by decreasing the power of the nobles, and increasing the dominance of the government who collect taxes and administered justice.
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In 1667 Louis XIV launched the War of Devolution (1667-1668), the first in a series of military conflicts that characterized his aggressive approach to foreign policy, by invading the Spanish Netherlands, which he claimed as his wife’s inheritance. Under pressure from the English, Swedish and especially the Dutch, France retreated and returned the region to Spain, gaining only some frontier towns in Flanders.
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Louis decided to fight additional wars, just in case by luck, he might gain some more land.
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Louis XIV expands his palace to make it more greater and more mightier
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Louis XIV makes art popular and starts a movement towards different arts
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Louis The XIV wife's death of pneumonia.
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Louis slows down the economic process of France. He cancels the Edict of Nantes, which protects religious rights of Huguenots. Because of this action skilled workers and business men fled the country. Louis did not like their religion - protestants
