Absolutism

Magnificent palace built by King Louis XIV

Versailles

Age of Absolutism

1650-1789, a purposeful attempt by European rulers to attend their royal or dynastic control over all aspects of life in the lands they ruled

Collations

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order.

Louis XIV's Economic Adviser

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Louis XIV Death

Louis XIV died on 1 September 1715, shortly after the Peace of Utrecht which ended the War of the Spanish Succession.

Edict of Nantes (Passed)

The Edict of Nantes, issued on 13 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic.

Treaty of Urtecht

The Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht, comprises a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713.

War of Spanish Succsession Began

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch.

French Economy (after the revocation of Edict of Nantes)

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes weakened the French economy by driving out a highly skilled and industrious segment of the nation, and its ruthless application increased the detestation in which England and the Protestant German states held the French king.

3 reasons- decline of France During King Louis XIV's Reign

The turning point in Louis's reign between the earlier grandeur and the later disasters came after Colbert's death (1683). In 1685 the king took the disastrous step of revoking the Protestant (Huguenot) minority's right to worship by his Edict of Fontainebleau, often called the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Treaty Concluding Spanish Succession

The war, over a decade long, was concluded by the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Rastatt (1714). As a result, Philip V remained King of Spain but was removed from the French line of succession, averting a union of the two kingdoms.

Alliance

an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

Edict of Nantes (Revoked)

the law granting religious and civil liberties to the French Protestants, promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and revoked by Louis XIV in 1685

Longest Reign In European History

King Louis XIV

Last war thought by King Louis XIV

The last major struggle of Louis XIV was the War of the Spanish Succession from 1701 to 1714.