Article: Louis XIV (France) (16381715; Ruled 16431715)

LOUIS XIV (FRANCE) (1638 1715; ruled 1643 1715)

LOUIS XIV (FRANCE) (1638 1715; ruled 1643 1715), king of France. Hailed as le Dieudonn é , 'the God-given', Louis XIV was the first child of Louis XIII (1601 1643) and Anne of Austria (1601 1661), born twenty-three years into their marriage.

THE EARLY YEARS (1638 1661)

Ascending the throne at the age of four, Louis XIV was educated under the tutelage of his godfather and chief minister, Jules Cardinal Mazarin (1602 1661), and under the day-to-day watch of his governor, Nicolas de Neufville, first marshal-duke de Villeroi (1644 1730). The young king received not a ...

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