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... Louis and his ministers will often appear arbitrary, arrogant, Brutal and many more things. ... So it is impossible to judge Louis reign and legacy by modern standards.
By the end of Louis the XIVs reign, the treasury was almost empty. ... The cost of war under Louis XIV was greater than the French revenue system could sustain, and by the end of his reign the country faced a crisis of three kinds: there was a massive burden of debt, resulting from the anticipation of future revenues and the issue of paper debts which had not been Louis XIV has generally been regarded as the epitome of royal absolutism in the honoured; the coinage had been successively devalued; and the revenue system had been so ruthlessly exploited that the economy itself was in depression and needed new stimulus.
Approximate Word count = 665
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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