King Louis The King Of France

Louis XIV is one of the most famous examples of an absolute ruler. Louis had a complete control over his country. Louis’s father had died leaving France in a civil war. Louis XIV obtained power after his father died and through hatred over the nobility that threatened his life and his mothers, though Cardinal Mazarin ruled until Louis XIV took power after Mazarin’s death. He vowed he would never be so weak that he could not have power. Louis XIV was an absolute ruler of France he centralized government, military powers, taxation, and further weakened aristocracy to become a more powerful ruler.

The French Revolution was a time of great social, political and economic tumult in the closing years of the Eighteenth Century. The motivators pushing French citizenry toward revolution are varied in scope and origin. They range from immediate economic woes to an antiquarian class structure. Modern historians still debate the value of the changes that the revolution brought to modern society. The middle class made gains that would never be rescinded, but do revolutions always end in tyranny? In the years before the revolution citizens were rigidly constrained by the estates of the realm. These social strata had been in place since the medieval ages. The people were divided into three groups; clergy, nobility and everyone else. The clergy

During the French Revolution, there were three different social categories that separated you depending on how much money were making, and who you were. The First Estate were the clergy, or priests, the Second Estate were the nobility,and last the Third Estate were peasants. For example, there was a picture on the Do Now: The Causes of the French Revolution, that depict the difference in treatment each social group were receiving. The priests were in charge of the Church the main government, and they were rich, they had fancy clothing and lived a great life. The nobles were also rich, if you were a noble back in 1789, you were a police officer, or someone who worked in the community. The peasants were very poor due

During 1789 and decades prior, peasants toil in the fields and reap the diminishing wheat stalks. Bound by the law set by the king, they suffered paying the nobility’s and clergy’s expenses with whatever income they had. When not in desperate poverty, the Third Estate would muster any energy to exert disdain to their king, indifferent behind palace walls. With Voltaire's and Rousseau's conceptions, commoners imagined a government where the nation was in potency, not the monarch. Yet, King Louis XVI taunts this bubbling tension by claiming these privileges were well-deserved, insinuating that his people were literal breadwinners, obligated to pay tribute. With high tax rates, a radical government where the people were free of ridicule circulated

For my source I chose a note written by King louis XVI. This Source is commonly called “the kings note on fleeing Paris”. King Louis the sixteenth was a very well-known king from the mid to late 1700’s and was the king of France. He was able to complete several huge accomplishments such as establishing equal rights amongst religion for those who did not personally consider themselves to be a member of the catholic faith, supporting American revolutionary efforts, and even refusing to raise taxes which, as a king, directly affected how much he earned from his time with the crown. However, because of these things like funding other countries revolutions, he sent France into a depressed financial state that hurt the middle and lower classes of

The wars of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI all led to an increasing amount of anger from the people as there were unfair taxes for the Third Estate to pay the war debts. The Third Estate were already devastated

According to document one, King Louis XVI felt that he had the power to spend people’s money the way he felt like it needed to be spend. He would levy taxes to unorthodox prices to hurt the poor. King Louis XVI lived in a huge palace, and the people were not seeing where their money was going , so they assumed (which they probably was right) that he was taking their money and spending it on himself. According to document three, as time progress the poor just got poorer. The writer says, “The children are terribly ragged,” and that there was a huge lack of bread.

During 1780s to 1790s France was in total chaos. France was ruled by the Bourbon family King Louis XVI from 1754 to 1793, it was an absolute monarch and they had absolute power and did not share it with a legislature. The situation was already bad before Louis XVI began his reign, but situation got worse. In the end, there was a revolution in France and a vast amount changes to the society and the government of France. Louis XVI himself was executed and killed; while France was established as a democratic country. There were different reasons for Louis's downfall: social, economic, political conditions. Also reasons such as the Age of Enlightenment when some philosophers had new ideas of how the country should be ruled, the inequalities

In France, before the French Revolution, the governing body was called the Old Regime. Under Louis XIV and his queen Marie Antoinette, the French society was divided up into three groups. These groups were called the three estates. In this system, the first two estates lived very well while the third estate was very impoverished. This paired with the lack of a strong leader (Louis XIV) caused rising tensions in the third estate. This eventually led to revolution. The main cause of this was the layout of the Old Regime. The Old Regime was made up of three estates that were very different in their governmental abilities and their amount of money.

Before King Louis put his absolute system into place, and even while his system was in place, there were other groups that had certain political powers. For example, there was a group called the Estates Generals that controlled a few taxing powers. For the king to use these specific taxing powers, he would have to meet with this group, and this group would have the final say in determining if the king would be allowed to raise or lower a tax. Luckily for King Louis, these taxes were of minor importance to him. To work around the Estates Generals, all King Louis needed to do was ignore the few taxes that they controlled altogether, as the only way the Estates Generals could legally come together and meet was if the king ordered a meeting. Surely by ignoring these taxes King Louis would lose out on potential revenues from taxes, but he had an answer for that as well. To make up that lost revenue, King Louis raised taxes on the taxes he alone possessed control over. This reason, and the overall wealth of King Louis to begin with, made creating an absolute monarchy in France possible. The nobles combined possessed more wealth than King Louis, but with his wit and deceptiveness, he divided the nobles. With the assistance from his Palace of Versailles, the nobles squabbled amongst each other. This disorganization made them depend on him even more, granting King Louis even more

From the start of his life, Louis XIV was destined to be the most powerful ruler in French history. Born in 1683 in France to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, he was next in line to the throne under his father. The first of many obstacles in his life was presented in 1643, when Louis XIII died and left Louis XIV to the throne at the age of 5; causing him to quickly adjust to the King lifestyle. Throughout his life beginning in his early childhood, Louis XIV was faced with difficulties that molded him to become the most prominent ruler in French History, allowing him to be able to make France a major economic, military and cultural power by the time of his death.

L’État, c’est moi” (“I am the state”). Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, absolute monarchs ruled many countries and states. In an absolutist state, power and sovereignty is embodied within one person. Absolute kings attempted to control competing institutions and jurisdictions in their state, and secured power with the nobility. An absolute monarchy has total political power over its sovereign state and people. King Louis XIV of France and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia were both absolute monarchs. These two monarchs satisfied the four characteristics of absolutism: divine right of kings, meaning they were chosen by God; skilled bureaucracy, where decisions are made by the state; control of the economy, absolute monarchs had control of money and trading; and lastly a professional army, the absolutist must have a permanent standing army.

Life changed extremely for the upper class. Before the French Revolution, the upper class owned lots of land, didn’t have to pay taxes and was very wealthy. Which meant they could buy expensive food and clothing. They lived off the sweat of peasants. They were seen as greedy who contributed nothing. The upper class only made up 2% of society. The upper class was very cohere to all their privileges. But this all changed during the Revolution, the upper class began fearing to lose their privileges and they soon tried to escape. Later on, they were imposed to come back, being humiliated by the order of a lower class. Consequently, after the Revolution, they had to face a great

When Louis XVI came to the throne in 1774, he was nineteen years of age. While no one doubted his ability to rule France, it was quite clear that, although raised as the Dauphin since 1765, he didn’t have firmness and decisiveness. His desire to be loved by the people is obvious in the prefaces of many of his edicts that would often explain the nature and good intention of his actions as benefiting

Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, was a monarch, who imposed his own visions of beauty and nature throughout his kingdom. He ruled as King of France from 1643 to 1715. In his brilliant reign, France’s appearance and way of life changed dramatically. The landscapes, towns and monuments bear great transformation, especially the Palace of Versailles, which was an icon back then and continue to this day. In the era of absolutism, Louis XIV's France was a leader in the growing centralization of power in Europe. In today’s culture, France has their footprint around the world and we do owe them much more than we think, in particular haute couture and cuisine. The origins of French art were influenced by Flemish and Italian art at the time of the