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Louis XIV: The Sun King

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Power Struggle With the Protestants

The Huguenots had always expressed loyalty to the divinely appointed ruler. Louis is a supporter of the Jesuits, he has a Jesuit confessor. The Janssenists and the Jesuits are very much at loggerheads. He won in the sense that he managed to get them out of France. But economically it was a disastrous decision on his part.

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