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France Under Louis XIV

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Objectives

Students will identify the successes and failures

of Louis XIV.

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Warm Up

How did Spain lose its power?

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Homework

Section 2 Summary

All 5 questions

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Agenda

Objective

Warm Up

Homework

France under Louis XIV Guided Notes

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Terms and People

Huguenots French Protestants of the 1500s

and 1600s

Henry IV a Huguenot prince who inherited the

French throne in 1589

Edict of Nantes a proclamation issued by

Henry IV granting the Huguenots religious
toleration and other freedoms

Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of France;

appointed by Louis XIII in 1624, he devoted 18
years to strengthening the central government

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Terms and People (continued)

Louis XIV a king who inherited the French

throne in 1643 and went on to rule with absolute
power, saying, I am the state

intendant a royal official who collected taxes,

recruited soldiers, and carried out the kings
policies in the provinces

Jean-Baptiste Colbert Louis XIVs finance

minister, who imposed mercantilist policies to
bolster Frances economy

Versailles royal French residence and seat of

government established by King Louis XIV

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Terms and People (continued)

leve a ritual ceremony performed each

morning when King Louis XIV rose from bed

balance of power a distribution of military

and economic power among nations to prevent
any one country from becoming too strong

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How did France become the leading

power of Europe under the absolute
rule of Louis XIV?
France enjoyed a time of peace in the late
1400s in which French kings solidified their
power.
Louis XIV became an absolute monarch and
built the palace at Versailles, a symbol of his
power and wealth.

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France was torn apart by wars over religion

in the late 1500s.
These wars were fought between:
the Catholic
majority

French
Protestants,
Huguenots

The worst violence during this time began on

a Catholic holiday in 1572, when 3000 Huguenots
were killed. The St. Bartholomews Day Massacre
symbolized a breakdown of order in France.

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Henry IV, a Huguenot, inherited the French

throne in 1589.

He fought against
the Catholics for
four years and
then converted
to Catholicism.

Nevertheless, Henry
issued the Edict of Nantes
in 1598 to protect the
Protestants by granting
the Huguenots religious
toleration.

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Next, Henry worked to repair France.

His goal, he said, was to put a chicken in every pot.
Henry IV greatly
increased the
royal
bureaucracy.

Royal officials built roads

and bridges, administered
justice, and revived
agriculture.
Henry also reduced the
power of nobles.
In so doing, he laid the
groundwork for future
kings to rule without any
check on their power.

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When Henry IV was assassinated in 1610, his

nine-year-old son became King Louis XIII. At
first, nobles sought to reassert their power.

Then, in 1624, Louis appointed Cardinal

Richelieu as chief minister. Richelieu used all of
his cunning to strengthen the central government.

He outlawed Huguenot armies and gave the nobles

high posts at court to tie them to the king.

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Louis XIV became king in 1643 and faced an

uprising of nobles, merchants, and peasants.
This effort to take
power away from the
king was called the
Fronde.
Rioters drove the
young king from his
palace.

Louis never forgot

about this experience.
He decided to take
complete control of
government and
solidify his power as
an absolute monarch.

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Louis XIV took the sun as the symbol of his

total power and declared I am the state.
He never called a meeting of the Estates-General,
the council made up of representatives of all the
social classes, during his reign.
During this time, Louis appointed middle-class
intendants to carry out his policies and built the
French army into the strongest force in Europe.

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All of Frances economic policies were aimed at

making the nation the wealthiest state in Europe.
Finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert imposed
mercantilist policies to bring wealth to the treasury.
He had new lands cleared for farming.
He put high tariffs on imported goods.
He fostered overseas colonies and carefully regulated
trade with these colonies.

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Even Colberts efforts could not produce

enough income to support Louiss spending.

An example was Louiss decision to build the

immense palace of Versailles.
The king let nobles live at Versailles tax-free to
prevent them from threatening his power. Through
elaborate court ceremonies such as the leve, he
turned nobles from potential rivals to courtiers
angling for privileges.

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Versailles was designed to be a symbol of royal

wealth and power.

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Louis XIV ruled France for 72 years.

His court supported a splendid century of the
arts in which drama, painting, and ballet
flourished.
Louis sponsored the French Academies, which set
standards for the arts and sciences.
At the end of his reign, France was the
strongest state in Europe.

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Despite these triumphs, Louis made some

decisions that led to the decline of France.
He fought costly wars to expand French borders,
but was checked by rival rulers hoping to maintain
the balance of power.
He tried to unite France and Spain but was
unsuccessful.
When he revoked the Edict of Nantes, some 100,000
hardworking and prosperous Huguenots left France.

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Absolutism Project
Choose a ruler!
France: Louis XIV
Russia: Ivan the Terrible or, Peter the Great or, Catherine the Great
Austria: Maria Theresa
England: James I, Charles I
Spain: Philip II
Prussia: Fredrick the Great
Use encyclopedia.com or wikipedia.com