Louis XIV Biography

Born in 1638 with Saint-Germain-en-Laye, wire and successor of the precedent (1643-1715); was only five years old with its advent; His/her mother, Anne of Austria, were an officially regent until 1651; In fact, it was the right-hand man of this one, the Mazarin cardinal, who controlled, and that until his death in 1661. The ministry of Mazarin was marked by two significant orders in fact: From the interior point of view, the civil war of the sling, last tentative of opposition armed to the royal authority and whose failure will ensure the triumph of the absolute monarchy. From the external point of view, end of the thirty year old war and end of the particular war with Spain which was like a prolongation (treated of Munster, in 1648, which produced the French domination in Alsace; treated of the Pyrenees, in 1659, which ensured France, at the expense of Spain, of the immediate territorial enlargings, Artois, Roussillon, and, by the marriage of Louis XIV with the infante Marie Th...