AP Euro:Chap 13: Louis XIV and France
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- parlements
- Local law courts
- Bishop Bossuet
- Louis XIV's tutor, defended divine right of King
- Treaty of Rastadt
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- Un Roi, une loi, une foi
- "one king, one law, one faith
- Cardinal Mazarin
- Followed Richelieu, plan of centralizations
- intendents
- Royal civil servants placed across France to watch the nobility
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- finance minister centralized the economy, mercantilist
- Second Dutch war
- Treaty of Dover eliminates England from war, Louis invades Dutch Republic and Spanish Netherlands again
- Charles II of Spain
- Promises Spanish thrown to Louis' grandson and his Hapsburg relative Leopold
- corvee
- labor tax on the peasantry
- Gabelle
- Salt tax
- Mercatilism
- government control of the economy, colbert
- Cardinal Richelieu
- chief advisor, anti hapsburg, put power of king above all, very successful
- L;etat, c'est moi
- I am the State" Louis XIV
- Treaty of the Pyrenees
- Marie marries Louis for 500,000 Dowry. never gets paid
- Nine years' war
- (against league of Augsburg) Louis invades Germany
- Treaty of Aix La Chapelle
- England fought against France butgave Louis Flanders
- War of Spanish Succession
- France V Europe, France afraid to be surrounded by Hapsburgs, Europe afraid of Louis' power
- Marie Therese
- Spanish married to Louis XIV for political reasons
- The Fronde
- a rebellion of the nobility act, townspeople vs mazarin and Louis
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- Campaign against Huguenots in order to unify France.
- generalities
- districts Richelieu divides up for the intendants
- Jesuits
- Louis supported them as they gained influence in the upper class
- Peace of Alais
- redacts the edict of Nantes, takes aways most of the protestant's rights
- First Dutch War
- war of Devolution, Marie doesn't get the thrown of spain, Louis invades Spanish Netherlands,
- Marie de Medicis
- Queen mother of Louis XIII, Peace with Spain and promoted Cardinal Richelieu
- Treaty of Utrecht
- Ends fighting between England and France
- Vicomte de Turenne
- one of the major generals, invaded Flanders
- Louis XIV
- Sun King, ruled by divine Right, absolute ruler
- Marquis de Louvois
- military tactician. created a standing paid army that was respected
- Marquis de Vauban
- Military engineer. developed trench warfare
- Duke of sully
- Financial Minister that Established monopolies and civic jobs, organized France
- Raison d'etat
- state above all even morals, reason of State, use propoganda
- Treaty of Nijmwegen
- Netherlands keeps freedom, louis gets more little peaces of land
- taille
- a direct land tax on the peasantry
- Louis XIII
- Created to types of nobility, the intellects and the hereditary, took advise from intellectuals
- Versailles
- Grand palace, where Louis lived with hundreds of Nobles, cost half of France's wealth to build
- Gallican Church
- Roman Catholic church in France
- League of Augsburg
- Dutch, English, Spain, Sweden, several German states
- Henry IV
- worked with Duke of Sully to begin to make and absolute monarchy
- Jansenists
- opposed catholics, against the jesuits
- Treaty of Ryswick
- stopped Louis' invasion and France gets Alisace
- Anne Austria
- Queen mother of Louis XIV, appointed Cardinal Mazarin
- Quietists
- Christian movement that promoted intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection