This ruler's armies won the Battle of the Dunes under Marshal General Turenne. At the end of the Nine Years' War, his claim to Caribbean territory was
This ruler's armies won the Battle of the Dunes under Marshal General Turenne. At the end of the Nine Years' War, his claim to Caribbean territory was recognized in the Treaty of Ryswick, and he was threatened by a triple alliance during the War of Devolution. This survivor of the Fronde employed finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. He revoked protections for Huguenots in the Edict of Fontainebleau, but the expansion of his House of Bourbon faltered in the War of Spanish Succession. This king, served in youth by Cardinal Mazarin, proclaimed "I am the state." For 10 points, name this builder of Versailles, an absolutist "Sun King" of 17th-century France.
This ruler's armies won the Battle of the Dunes under Marshal General Turenne.
Louis XIV [or Louis Quatorze; or Louis the Great; or Louis le Grand; accept "Louis the Sun King" or "Louis le Roi-Soleil" until mentioned; prompt on "Louis"; prompt on "Sun King" or "Le Roi-Soleil" until mentioned]