what was interesting about King Louis the 14th?

Question

i have a history project to do and am having a lot of trouble with it.

Answer 1

Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death just prior to his seventy-seventh birthday. He acceded to the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his First Minister ("premier ministre"), Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. The reign of Louis XIV, known as The Sun King (in French Le Roi Soleil) or as Louis the Great (in French Louis le Grand, or simply Le Grand Monarque, "the Great Monarch") spanned seventy-two years—the longest reign of any major European monarch. Louis XIV increased the power and influence of France in Europe, fighting three major wars—the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession—and two minor conflicts—the War of Devolution, and the War of the Reunions. The political and military scene in France during his reign was filled by such names as Mazarin, Fouquet, Colbert, Michel le Tellier, his son Louvois, the Great Condé, Turenne, Vauban, Villars and Tourville.

Under his reign, France achieved not only political and military pre-eminence, but also cultural dominance with various cultural figures such as Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Le Brun, Rigaud, Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin Mansart, Claude Perrault and Le Nôtre. These cultural achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language and its king. One of France's greatest kings, Louis XIV worked successfully to create an absolutist and centralized state. Louis XIV became the archetype of an absolute monarch. The phrase "L'État, c'est moi" ("I am the State") is frequently attributed to him, though this is considered by historians to be a historical inaccuracy and is more likely to have been conceived by political opponents as a way of confirming the stereotypical view of the absolutism he represented. Quite contrary to that apocryphal quote, Louis XIV is actually reported to have said on his death bed: "Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours." ("I am going away, but the State will always remain").

Answer 2

He started many wars. During his rule, prostitutes were fined or had their noses cut off, though he himself "messed around". He wanted his daughter to marry Ismail the Bloodthirsty of Morocco (be added to the list of his 500 wives), and I don't think it meant to be in return for French & other Europeans taken prisoner & enslaved by pirates. When, for some reason, this marriage wasn't carried out, he gave Ismail the Bloodthirsty two magnificent clocks instead, which are displayed in his mouseolum. This is how Louis the 14th viewed his own daughter. In short, he was a horrible person.