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TURNING POINTS IN THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV (1643-1715)
1648-53: The Fronde
1661: The King declares on the death of Cardinal Mazarin that he will henceforth be his own chief minister
1672-78: Franco-Dutch War
1685: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
1688-97: War of the League of Augsburg (9 Years’ War)
1701-14: War of Spanish Succession (famine & bread riots in 1709/10)
1715: Death of the Sun King; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV
MAJOR UPRISINGS OF THE FRONDE, 1648-53
The movement began in Paris with a popular uprising to free judges imprisoned for questioning the legality of Mazarin’s new taxes. By 1650 the movement was dominated by princes who had quarreled with Richelieu and Mazarin.
Medallion of Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661), struck around 1660; he is shown as Hercules sharing
the burden of the globe with Atlas/Louis XIV
Charles Le Brun, “The Decision of Louis XIV to Make War on the Dutch Republic in 1671”
(study for the decoration of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles)
“THE NEW MISSIONARIES, dispatched by order of Louis the Great throughout the
Kingdom of France to return the heretics to the Catholic faith” (1686)
William of Orange,
Stadholder of the
Netherlands, who landed in England with 20,000 troops in November
1688
After the “Glorious
Revolution,” King William III
(1689-1702) and Queen Mary
forged an anti-French alliance of
England, the Netherlands, and
Austria
OUTCOME OF THE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION:Austria acquires the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium),
and the Bourbons acquire Naples