1. Louis XIV and the Palace of Versailles

2. Louis XIV
Nicknamed the “Sun King”… what inferences can you make about this?

3. “L’etat, c’est moi!” What does this translate to?
“The State, it is me!”
What inferences can you
make about the King based
on this popular expression?

4. Louis XIV described… Strong, healthy & athletic Devoted to hunting
Not particularly smart, but
Interested in architecture,
Landscape, theatre, ballet
& the arts.

5. Philippe I, Duc d’Orleans
He wasn’t an only child
His younger brother,
Philippe I, Duc d’Orleans

6. At 4 years and 8 months of age, he became King of France – named “Louis le Dieu-Donne”

7. Through his reign he increased France’s already enormous debt

8. He tried to increase France’s power through 3 major wars

9. War of the Grand Alliance
Franco-Dutch War
War of the Grand Alliance
War of the Spanish Succession

10. And he built a Palace at Versailles…

19. And who paid for it all??? There were several taxes
That the people of France paid:
The taille – based on land
a man owned
2. The aides – levied on wines
& spirits
3. The gabelle – a tax on salt

20. Louis XIV died at the age of 77
Louis XIV died at the age of 77. Once adored by France, he was now blamed for the sorry state of the nation. Though some 80 years in the future, the scene for the French Revolution had been set.