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Chateau de Versailles, France⁣
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Under King Louis XIV, the French army invaded the Spanish Netherlands in 1667, and eventually Spanish Flanders fell to the French forces. King Louis was worried by European alliances, and eventually he sued for peace

Chateau de Versailles, France⁣
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King Louis XIV’s marriage to Maria Theresa, a Spanish Princess, occurred in 1660. Their marriage was part of a peace treaty, wherein it was agreed by provision in the marriage contract, that Marie Theresa would

Chateau de Versailles, France⁣
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Initially, the new King Louis XIV ignored Versailles, but eventually he envisioned a new concept for it, although work did not begin until 1661-1664, depending on sources. Louis XIV began transforming his father's hun

Chateau de Versailles, France⁣
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Louis XIV was born in Paris in 1638, he was the eldest son of King Louis XIII. Louis was the oldest of only two surviving boys. In 1643, Louis XIII died at the age of 41. He had planned a regency council who would r

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