Pros And Cons Of King Louis Xiv

King Louis XIV was not a great leader, but certainly better than both King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He held many unsuccessful campaigns and waged many wars between him and the Dutch. But despite being hungry for military power, Louis XIV established reforms that cut France’s deficit and promoted industrial growth. And he also managed to restore France’s disorganized taxation system. For these reasons, King Louis XIV would be the best French ruler to live under.
King Louis XIV held a great number of campaigns, which were all largely unsuccessful, and he became involved in many wars with the Dutch and Calvinist Protestants. Louis also involved himself with the politics of the Holy Roman Empire, claiming that the French monarch had special rights within the empire. Also his persecution of the Calvinist Protestants was so very intense that it led to a huge population decline. These and some of Louis’s other extravagances caused France to downward spiral towards a disaster. Near the end of the 1680s, nations including Spain, England and the Holy Roman Empire, responded to the monarchy’s outrageous ideas by banding together to form the Grand Alliance. A war between France and the Grand Alliance broke out in 1688 and waged on for nearly a decade, leading to its becoming known

With the help of his finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV established reforms that cut France's deficit and promoted industrial growth. This helped with France’s economy because being in deficit, which France was in, means that the government was short money, which could lead to a financial crisis. Also by promoting industrial growth, the business economy of France importing and exporting goods would be higher, so France could gain money that would pay for the deficits that France was still in. Also during his reign, Louis XIV managed to improve France’s disorganized system of