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1.02 The Two Louis

French Revolution & Napoleon (Grey History)

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The French Nation - The Golden Tile on the Monarchy Wheel of Fortune

When a new monarch was crowned, the french nation were more or less spinning a giant wheel of fortune. Louis the fourteenth debatably got the golden tile on the monarchy wheel of fortune when they scored themselves. From a relative angle, it's pretty clear why louis the fourteenth may be remembered as a good king. Before his reign, france had been engulfed in the anarchy of assassinations and civil war. If louis was a race horse, he would be the very definition of a pure bred beast.

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