My son Louis XIV has showed a magnificent stubbornness of purpose during the catastrophic war, and sometimes a nobler and more national spirit than during the years of his achievements. The condition of France was devastating. I was loaded with debt; the improvements of Colbert were ruined; and oppositions to the king’s government had began to make itself felt the peace had brought some relief to France but the last years of my son’s life were sad in to the extent. His children seemed at one time to put the succession beyond all complexity. When my son Louis passed away, he was extremely disliked in his own country. But throughout his life, Le Grand Monarque was under enemy control of the stage of history in France and also Europe. He most mostly disliked for his absolutist system of government functioned under his two successors, until the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. My son Louis XIV was a great patron of arts. But his eldest son, the dauphin, died in April 1711; his eldest grandson the duke of Burgundy in February 1712; and his great- grandson the duke of Brittany in March 1712. The heir to the throne was now the duke of Burgundy’s son, the duke of Anjou, afterwards Louis XV. The king died on September 1715 after having the longest recorded power in European History. The ruling of the future of his people it has not been repeated in flattering verdict of his generation, but he remained the model of a great king in that he concerns the externals of kingship.
http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/louis_xiv.htm
http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/louis_xiv.htm
I cannot deny that your son, Louis XIV has basically sparked a new era in France. Even though, he spent lavishly, he was able to build Versailles and set it as a standard that soon became an example set by other European rulers. I agree with you that the majority of his life was spent in grief. I’m not saying this because I believe the addition of my services would have made his life better but because he was ambitious. He was as ambitious as I was and that too is a possibility that he refused my desires in France and so he would rather have our ambitions collide than have them combine.
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