HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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requiring nobles to live at Versailles while excluding them from real political power.
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filling the royal council with his supporters.
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requiring Huguenots convert to Catholicism, leave France or be punished.
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all of these are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by? stacking the royal council with loyal followers from relatively new aristocratic families.
Detailed explanation-2: -His mercantilist policies discouraged imports through high tariffs and tried to build up export industries whose sales abroad would increase the amount of money flowing into the kingdom. Building up France’s economy was just one part of Louis XIV’s program for increasing the country’s power.
Detailed explanation-3: -2. How did Louis XIV maintain power over policy making in France? He had a standing army and raised taxes immensely.
Detailed explanation-4: -Louis XIV also created much wealth for France by strengthening its economy through the promotion of trade and industry. With his economic advisor Jean-Baptiste Colbert, he followed an economic policy known as mercantilism.
Detailed explanation-5: -An absolute monarchy As sovereign by divine right, the King was God’s representative on earth. It is in this respect that his power was “absolute”, which in Latin means literally ‘free of all restraints’: the king was answerable to no one but God. During his coronation, Louis XIV swore to defend the Catholic faith.
Detailed explanation-6: -In that time, he transformed the monarchy, ushered in a golden age of art and literature, presided over a dazzling royal court at Versailles, annexed key territories and established his country as the dominant European power.