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22 year old louis married his first cousin Marie-Therese
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after Mazarin's death louis XIV broke tradition and told the court he would rule without a chief minister.
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most famously, he transformed a royal hunting lodge into one of the largest palaces in the world, moving the court and government there.
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Marquise de Maintenon who had served as his illegitimate children's governess; the two wed in private ceremony approximately one year after the death of queen marie-therese.
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in the 1680s responding to another spate of expansion campaigns by louis armies to and serval smaller countries formed a coalition known as the grand alliance. ensuring war, fought on both hemispheres.
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4 days before his 77th birthday he died of gangrene at Versailles, he reigned for 72 years, longer than any other known European monarch.
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