Negative Effects Of King Louis Xiv

At the beginning of the 16th century France was ruled by the feudal system where the nobility had all the power and land was used for currency. Midway through the 16th century Louis XIV came into power. Louis’s reign was a strong reason for France civilizations to fall. Overall King Louis negatively affected his society.
Some history about King Louis before and at the beginning his rule. According to factcite.com King Louis was actually born september 5th, 1638 in Saint Germain en Laye in france. Louis XIV was the son of Louis XIII of france, who ruled as the king of France from 1610-1643 but also as the king of Navarre from 1610-1620 but Navarre ended up merging with the french crown. King Louis XIV according to laws of kingdom was

given throne at the age of 4 years and 8 months. After the death of his father Louis XIII. Even though Little Louis was technically supposed to be king, Louis’s mother Anne of Austria took the power and was assisted by King Louis XIII’s minister Cardinal Mazarin until Louis XIV was older and could better make decisions on his own. This eventually became a bad idea because Mazrin used his position in power to enrich himself. This caused the nobility and the peasants to rise up against him in a revolt called the Fronde. The Fronde started in 1648, Mazarin’s opponents presented him some demands that would give members of the regional court the right to approve new taxes. Therefor Marzin decided to arrest to members of the Paris Parlement which lead to a series of revolts across social classes for the next five years. This results to Mazarin in 1652 to declare the regency to an end by declaring Louis XIV of age. Louis XIV did not gain absolute power of France till about seven years later when Mazarin died.
King Louis XIV finally started his reign in about 1661, Louis XIV’s reign was not very good, he negatively affected his society. His reign was not very successful because King Louis XIV ruled under an Absolutist system. By doing this he would try to take power from the nobility by building the Royal Court of Versailles. The nobles thought that the Royal Court of Versailles was so prestigious King Louis XIV actually had important nobles fighting over trivial duties. This gave King Louis XIV more power because the nobles could not plot against him if they were living with the king so this overall let King Louis XIV keep an eye on the nobility so they could not get too powerful and the high cost of living in the Royal Court of Versailles helped weaken the financial standing of the nobility. King Louis XIV followed the actions of Mazarin by expanding the bureaucracy by appointing royal officials called intendants who collected taxes recruited soldiers and expanded his power to the provinces but King Louis XIV. The building of the Royal Court of Versailles was extremely expensive and was a reason for France to go into debt.. Due to this debt the taxes of the people were raised the people did not like this and refused to pay.
Due to these negative effects King Louis XIV was not liked by the people.

King Louis XIV was not a very favorable King. According to Britannica Academic In 1685 King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in order to create an orderly society. The Edict was originally passed in 1595 by Louis’s grandfather (Henry IV) which granted religious freedoms to French Huguenots. King Louis XIV also ordered the destruction of Huguenot churches and schools. King Louis forced the Huguenots to undergo baptism and exiled all Huguenot preachers if they refused to renounce their faith. King Louis XIV held the idea of “one king, one law, one faith”. King Louis XIV put France into many wars, wars tend to be very pricy, but some advisors thought military glory was the foundation of French Power Louis tried to balance the two, though it is a contradictory position since military preparedness is very expensive. Which did not work every well. King Louis’s wars ended up lasting most of the end of the 17 century and involved most of the major European powers. One of the wars was the “War of Devolution which was in 1667-1668) the war was then King Louis XIV invaded the Spanish Netherlands. King Louis beat the Spanish but he was forced to make peace with the British, Swedish and the Dutch Republic. King Louis also started the “ The Dutch war which lasted from 1672-1678”, “The Nine Year’s of War that lasted from 1688-1697” and “ The War of the Spanish Succession that lasted from 1701- 1714”. This war

was the Longest of King Louis’s war. Four days before his 77th birthday, King Louis XIV died in Versailles leaving France far in debt.
King Louis XIV’s reign lasted 72 years which was the longest reign in the history of france. King Louis XIV negatively affected France’s societies through so much debt and him wanting all the power for himself. The French could never go back from everything and crumbled economically, socially and in government.