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1.02 The Two Louis

French Revolution & Napoleon (Grey History)

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The Legacy of Louis the 14th

louis the fourteenth used his increasingly unquestioned authority as an absolute monarch to spread french influence, power and culture throughout the world. He had transformed france from a nation that fought itself into one that fought others. Louis essentially completed the nobility's transformation from a privileged class with substantial political power to just a privileged class dependent on bones thrown to them by the crown. Going forward, it was the king who would govern exclusively and absolutely. And that versailles became in policy what rome had been in religion - essentially oge is saying that versailles was the equivalent of to day's washington d c.

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