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Hace 5 días · Louis XIV died on 1 September 1715, and was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson Louis XV; on his deathbed, he is alleged to have admitted, "I have loved war too well". True or not, while the final settlement was far more favourable than the Allied terms of 1709, it is hard to see what Louis gained that he had not already achieved through diplomacy by February 1701. [109]
- 1701-1714 (13 years)
- Treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt, and Baden
Hace 5 días · Throughout his long reign Louis XIV (1643–1715) never lost the hold over his people he had assumed at the beginning. He worked hard to project his authority in the splendid setting of Versailles and to depict it in his arrogant motto “Nec pluribus impar” (“None his equal”) and in his sun emblem.
Hace 4 días · This was the principal dwelling in Meudon of Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661–1711), son of Louis XIV, on the ground floor of the east wing of the Château-Vieux. It was preserved intact throughout the 18th century.
Hace 5 días · Louis Joseph, duke of Vendome, one of French King Louis XIV’s leading generals during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14). He was also made commander of the army of King Philip V of Spain in 1710, and he won major victories that assured Philip of his throne.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 4 días · In 1670, he entered into the Treaty of Dover, an alliance with his cousin, King Louis XIV of France. Louis agreed to aid him in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay him a pension, and Charles secretly promised to convert to Catholicism at an unspecified future date.
Hace 3 días · Blenheim destroyed the illusion of French invincibility and marked the beginning of a military partnership between Marlborough and Eugene that successfully resisted Louis XIV’s attempts to extend his territorial claims.
Hace 3 días · France - Baroque, Enlightenment, Revolution: If historians are not yet agreed on the political motives of Louis XIV, they all accept, however, the cultural and artistic significance of the epoch over which he and his two 17th-century predecessors reigned.
