1. French
Absolutism
Absolute power
Kind of cool

2. Henry IV Assassinated
1610

3. Widow and son

4. Cardinal Richelieu

5. Revokes Huguenot Freedoms

6. Sides with Protestants
against the Hapsburgs

7. reduces power of the nobility
• Took away medieval
privileges and power
from Parlement of Paris
Subsidized exploration -
Samuel Champlain

8. Died in 1642 and was
Succeeded by Mazarin
• Louis XIII died in 1643
and was succeeded by his
four-year-old son Louis
XIV

9. Fronde 1648-53

10. Sun King
Longest reigning monarch in history more than 72 years

11. Colbert as economic advisor,
Mr. Mercantilism

12. Louis’s wife and wars
• Grandchild of Henry IV
and daughter of Philip IV
of Spain
• Marriage agreement
renounces her right to
Spanish throne in
exchange for three-
installment dowry, but
never actually finished the
installments.
• This is the rationale for
several wars

13. 1660s-1690s
• Several wars between France and the Habsburg
family and allies.
• Grand Alliance formed against France.
• France invaded Spanish Netherlands and United
Netherlands in each war.
• Huge amounts of money for very little gain.

14. Versailles

15. Spleandor

18. Hall of Mirrors

21. War of Spanish Succession
1701-1714

22. Alliance leaders
William of Eugene,
John Leopold I Prince of
England and Churchill, HRE
Netherlands Savoy
Duke of
Marlborough

23. Treaty of Utrecht
1713
England got Newfoundland,
Acadia and Gibraltar
The Habsburgs got “Spanish”
Netherlands, Naples, Milan and
Sardinia
Savoy got Sicily
Philip V got to keep his crown
but forever renounced his right
to the French throne