Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), popularly known as the Sun King (French: le Roi Soleil), was King of France and of Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the longest documented reign of any European monarch.
Louis began personally governing France after the death in 1661 of his prime minister (premier ministre), the Italian Cardinal Jules Mazarin. An a...
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The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples & Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently...
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- Marie Anne de Bourbon
- Françoise-Marie de Bourbon
- Louis, Grand Dauphin
- Princess Marie-Therèse of France
- Louise-Françoise de Bourbon
- Philippe-Charles, Duke of Anjou
- Anne-Élisabeth de France
- Marie-Anne de France
- Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon
- Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois
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- The only King of France worthy of the name
- There was nothing he liked so much as flattery, or, to put it more plainly, adulation; the coarser and clumsier it was, the more he relished it
- A great king
- One of the greatest kings that ever was
- By far the ablest man who was born in modern times on the steps of a throne.
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