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
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.
royalty states
I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]
agreement broken cases
In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.
feet government wish
It is legal because I wish it.
done forgotten last-words
Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?
kings should temper
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
ungrateful unhappy hundred
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
mind want small-minds
Only small minds want always to be right.
law
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
kings finals argument
The final argument of kings
god pride
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
time
Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.