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What year did Louis XIV first become king?
1643
What was an intendant?
Government agents for Louis XIV.
Who revoked the Treaty of Nantes?
King Louis XIV.
What age did Louis XIV become king?
Four.
Louis XIV was against what religion?
Protestants.
What year did Louis XIV invade the Spanish Netherlands?
1667
What was absolute power and what was used to justify it?
Absolute Power is when a ruler is in full control of a colony, justified by the "divine right theory."
The edict that allowed religious freedom to Huguenots. It was issued by King Henry of Navarre.
Who was Louis XIV's dad?
Louis XIII.
How was France weakened in war?
By poor harvests, war costs, and new taxes.
When was the Treaty of Utrecht signed?
1714
What is skepticism?
A new French intellectual movement that doubted absolute truths, and that nothing can ever be known for certain.
What was the The Treaty of Nijmegen?
What did Cardinal Richelieu do for France?
Weakened the power of the nobility, centralizing authority with the king. Also limiting the political influence of Huguenots.
What alliance was formed to prevent French domination?
League of Augsburg.
What year did Louis XIV die?
1715
What was the Palace of Versailles?
A residence that Louis XIV built to house hundreds of nobles.
What was the the Treaty of Utrecht?
The Treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
Who was Michel de Montaigne?
A writer who witnessed the war's peak, & expressed this doubt through essays.
What was French's population?
20 million.
The War of the Spanish Succession happened when?
What is "Tartuffe"?
A playwright by Molière that mocked religious hypocrisy.
Where was the Treaty of Utrecht signed?
The Dutch Republic.
Who was Louis XIV's grandson?
Phillip of Anjou
Who involved France in the Thirty Years War?
Cardinal Richelieu.