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  Louis XIV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis XIV considered its construction one of the greatest achievements of his reign, which, along with the Chateau de Versailles, is one of the largest and most extravagant monuments in Europe, extolling a king and his country.
It was once believed that she vigorously promoted the persecution of the Protestants, and that she urged Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes (1598), which granted a degree of religious freedom to the Huguenots (the members of the Protestant Reformed Church).
Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson Louis, Duc d'Anjou, the younger son of the Duc de Bourgogne and Dauphin upon the death of his grandfather, father and elder brother, succeeded to the throne and was to reign as Louis XV of France.
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 Madame de Maintenon
When in 1669, her friend, the Marquise de Montespan, needed someone to secretly care for the children she was having with King Louis XIV, Francoise was the ideal choice.
Madame Guyon, was a regular visitor to Saint-Cyr; Maintenon, the teachers, and the older students read and re-read Guyon's Moyen court et tres facile pour l'oraison (A short and very easy method of prayer).
The correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, mother of the regent: of Marie-Adelaide de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in relation to Saint-Cyr / Preceded by introductions from C.A. Sainte-Beuve.
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 Louis XIV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Shortly thereafter, the signing of the Peace of Westphalia released the French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé to return to the aid of Louis and of his royal court.
It is believed that She vigorously promoted the persecution of the Protestants, and that She urged Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes (1598), which granted a degree of religious freedom to the Huguenots (the members of the Protestant Reformed Church).
Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson, the Son of the duc de Bourgogne, succeeded to the throne and reigned as Louis XV.
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 Louis XIV - The Sun King
He erred, however, in the readiness with which he dispensed them from residence in their dioceses, while, as to abbacies, he too often availed himself of them to reward services rendered by laymen, and gave them as means of support to impoverished nobles.
To the Comte du Vexin, his son by Madame de Montespan, he gave the two great Abbacies of Saint-Denis and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Louis XIV was particularly fond of taking a hand in doctrinal matters; and those who surrounded him ended by believing that the king could supervise the Church and supply it with information on religious questions.
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 Ashtaroth
Astaroth was believed to know all secrets and was summoned (usually Wednesdays, between the hours of ten and eleven at night, for a successful summoning) to perform revelations of the past and the future.
Madame de Montespan, Louis XVI of France mistress, was reputed to have made human sacrifices to Astaroth on her attempts to obtain secret knowledge and magical influence over the king.
Astaroth is also mentioned as one of the seven princes of Hell who visited Faust, emerging as a serpent with a colored tail, two small feet, a chestnut neck, and spines similar to a hedgehog that grew up to a finger's length.
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 Louis XIV of France
Madame de Maintenon, Louis XIV's second wife Louis's queen, Maria Theresa, also died in 1683.
Madame de Maintenon, once a Protestant, had converted to Catholicism.
He instead preferred to transfer power to his illegitimate son by Madame de Montespan, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine.
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