Question Posed: What steps did Louis XIV take to increase the power of the crown in France and what did he do that led to its eventual demise.

Louis XIV was a charismatic fool with an ego the size of Texas. He took some major steps to increase his power but then he took some even bigger steps and managed to take the most powerful nation on earth and send it down the toilet.

Louis did however do some things well just before he screwed France over, but even these things contributed to France's eventual decline. First of all Louis build Versailles, and for all practical purposes Versailles was nothing but an up scaled Disney World for nobles. Louis saw that

Louis saw things were starting to look up for him with an enormous cash flow and nobles that were fighting over who could bring Louis his clothes in the morning so he got cocky and revoked the Edict of Nantes. This basically said that if you weren't catholic you better get out or your going to be killed. And consequently most of the people that left were Louis tax base: the middle class. So now Louis doesn't have any money coming in and still has this gaping hole left in the economy form the construction of Versailles.

Now any other person would assume that Louis would cool his jets for a bit and let the economy of France restabilize, but Louis thinks otherwise and gets involved in some wars. France at the time had a enormous army of over 200,000 making them the

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