![]() ![]() In 1660 Louis married the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain (1638-83), daughter of Philip IV. Pious and conservative, he was able to present himself within France and throughout Europe as the model of royal absolutism. Then Louis was his own Chief Minister, working with unremitting energy and making all the important decisions himself ( L'état, c'est moi: ' I am the state'). ![]() During his minority (1643-51), the government was carried on by his mother and her Chief Minister and lover, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, and Mazarin continued to exercise control until his death in 1661. Louis was born in St Germain-en-Laye, the son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, and came to the throne at the age of five. Louis XIV, known as Le Roi Soleil ('The Sun King') 1638-1715 ![]()
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