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Louis XIV: The Sun King

In Our Time: History

The Power Struggle With the Protestants

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The Huguenots had always expressed loyalty to the divinely appointed ruler. The idea that they might align with Protestant powers elsewhere in Europe is a driver for many rulers, he says. It's not only Protestants but groups within the Catholic church as well that Louis sees as generating an interest in separate focuses of authority,. He has a Jesuit confessor, the Janssenists, and the Jesuits are very much at loggerheads.

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