Louis XIV
Louis XIV
Louis XIV, known as Louis the Greator the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in European history. In this age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's France was a leader in the growing centralization of power...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth5 September 1638
CountryFrance
feet government wish
It is legal because I wish it.
government order each-day
Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.
time
Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
hundred persons time vacant
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
god pride
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
When he traveled, the clockmakers, and many clocks, went with him.
reading no-point
I see no point in reading.
kings finals argument
The final argument of kings
law
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
thinking famous-last-words immortal
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
office political ingrates
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
grief wife heaven
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]
women europe two
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
imagine immortal last-words
Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?