John green crash course louis xiv biography

          Louis XIV was officially crowned king in , when he was 15, and as he grew older, his urgent task became organizing the administration of his.

        1. Louis XIV was officially crowned king in , when he was 15, and as he grew older, his urgent task became organizing the administration of his.
        2. Louis XIV, led Western Europe's most powerful Kingdom for more than 70 years.
        3. So far, the rulers of Europe have been working to consolidate their power and expand their kingdoms, and this is it.
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        5. Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, ruled during a period of hardship for the majority of people, despite the Scientific Revolution and the end of.

          6. So far, the rulers of Europe have been working to consolidate their power and expand their kingdoms, and this is it....

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          Hi, I'm John Green, and this is Crash Course: European History.  So, today, we're moving into the second half of the 17th century.  The 30 Years War has ended with the Treaty of Westphalia, and the Scientific Revolution is producing amazing new universal laws, but life is still pretty terrible for the vast majority of people.  For kings, though, things were changing, with the advent of absolutism, in which the king is said to have a divine right to the throne and the divinest divine right monarch of them all, Louis XIV, led Western Europe's most powerful kingdom for more than 70 years.  

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          So this is a portrait of Louis XIV, the French Sun King, painted when he was 63.  Louis XIV looks regal in his massive black wig and swaths of ermine embellished with flours de lis, the symbol of the former French royal house.  His high heels show off his shapely legs in white hose, demonstrating the king's perfection.