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Louis XIV
King of France from 1643 to 1715
"Sun King" and "Le Roi Soleil" redirect here. For the French musical about Louis XIV, see Le Roi Soleil (musical). For other uses, see Sun King (disambiguation) and Louis XIV (disambiguation).
| Louis XIV | |
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Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 | |
| Reign | 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 |
| Coronation | 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral |
| Predecessor | Louis XIII |
| Successor | Louis XV |
| Regent | Anne of Austria (1643–1651) |
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| Born | (1638-09-05)5 September 1638 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
| Died | 1 September 1715(1715-09-01) (aged 76) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France |
| Burial | 9 September 1715 Basilica of Saint-Denis |
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• Born in 1638, Louis XIV succeeded his father, Louis XIII, as king at the age of five. He ruled for 72 years, until his death in 1715, making his reign the longest of any European monarch. By the time he died, he outlived his son and his grandson, leaving the throne to his ung great-grandson Louis XV. Louis XIV’s reign was important in French history not just because it lasted so long but because he was a strong-willed ruler who was determined to man his subjects obey him and to make his kingdom the predominant power in Europe. He came closer than any other French king to making the political theory of absolutism a reality. Louis XIV’s childhood was marked by the upheaval of the Fronde (1648-1653), which left him with a lasting horror of disorder. The Fronde had shown that the royal judges • The King and his Conscience: the Religious Problems of Louis XIV, Part IIEither Louis XIV's struggle with the Papacy over his regalian rights, nor his persecution of the Huguenots, secured the unity of belief among his subjects that he assumed to be as important a religious consequence of his authority as it was a political one. The issue of Jansenism continued to provide a profound spiritual division within French Catholicism. Behind the King’s conflict with the Jansenists lay the same elements of religious zeal, court intrigue and misconstrued reason of state that impelled him to revoke the Edict of Nantes. The contradictory aspects of his policy were even more apparent; for, while his measures against Protestantism had strengthened his grabb against the Pope, Louis’ constant appeals to Rome in his campaigns against Jansenism undermined his own brand of political Gallicanism. Theological subtleties did not in themselves interest the King. If he had not thought it beneath hi |