Louis XIV

OF FRANCE

ΚΑΤΣΑΜΠΕΛΙΔΟΥ ΙΩΑΝΝΑ
ΘΩΜΑϊΔΗ ΜΑΡΙΑΝΑ
Β2 ΣΧΟΛΙΚΟ ΕΤΟΣ 2023-2024
This is Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV was born on the 5th of September 1638 and was
imprisoned on the 1st of September 1715. He was also known
as Louis the Great or the Sun King.

He was King of France from 1658 until his death in 1715. His
verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any
sovereign.
 WIFE
Daughter of King Philip IV
of Spain and Elisabeth de
France, Maria Theresa was
born in 1638 at the Escurial
Palace near Madrid. In 1660,
in the wake of the Treaty of
the Pyrenees, she married
Louis XIV in Saint-Jean-de-
Luz. The wedding sealed the
reconciliation between
France and Spain.
 DEATH
His health started to decline on 10 August 1715
upon his return from a hunting trip in Marly, • , On 29 August a man who claimed
when he felt sharp pains in his leg. Fagon, his to have a miracle cure, one Brun,
doctor, diagnosed sciatica. But the pain was was granted permission to
always in the same place, and shortly approach the royal bed. The king
afterwards black marks appeared, indicating did feel better afterwards, but the
damage had been done, and on 30
senile gangrene. Despite excruciating pain, the
and 31 August he began to drift in
king carried on with his daily routine without and out of consciousness. On the
flinching, fully intending to do his duty to the morning of 1 September he died.
end. The veteran monarch seemed
unshakeable, to the great admiration of all the
courtiers. However, on 25 August, the day of
Saint Louis, he was forced to remain in bed,
and thereafter never left his bedchamber.