Maximes louis xiv biography

(1638-1715)

Synopsis

Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638, in Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, France.

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He became king in 1643. As of 1661, he started reforming France. In 1667 he invaded the Spanish Netherlands. From 1672–1678 he engaged France in the Franco-Dutch War. In 1688, he led a war between France and the Grand Alliance.

Maximes louis xiv biography

By the 1680s, Louis XIV generated public hostility. He died in Versailles, France, on September 1, 1715.

Childhood and Early Reign

Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638, in Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, France, and christened Louis-Dieudonné—French for "Gift of God." His mother was the Hapsburg Spanish queen Anne of Austria, and his father was Louis XIII, king of France.

Louis XIV had a brother named Philippe, who was two years younger.

On May 14, 1643, when Louis XIV was just 4 and a half years old, his father passed away. Not much more than a toddler, Louis XIV succeeded his father to the throne, becoming the leader of 19 million French