Description: LOUIS XIV Type: TokenDate : 1671Metal: silverDiameter: 27 mmWeight: 6.16 gDegree of rarity : R2BOOK REFERENCE:F.12637 - 270 APAVERSObverse titling: LVD. XIIII. D. G. - FR. ET. NAV. REX..Obverse Description: Right bust of Louis XIV [No. 165], type Guéant Prieur 270AP.REVERSEReverse titling: SIC IMPENDIT OPES; PROMINENTLY: 1671.Description lapel: The sun over fruit trees, with a tuft in the foreground in a garden.Reverse translation: Thus, he dispenses his riches.HISTORICALLOUIS XIV THE GREAT or THE SUN KING(14/05/1643-1/09/1715)The reign of Louis XIV was the longest and most glorious in the history of France. Son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, born September 5, 1638, the third Bourbon king ascended the throne in 1643 and remained there for seventy-three years. He died on 1 Sept. 1715, aged seventy-seven. Between 1643 and 1661, under the regency of Anne of Austria and the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin, absolutism was built in combat: internal struggle against the Fronde, external struggle against Spain. Louis XIV's personal reign began in 1661, when the young king decided to "rule by himself". The absolute monarchy then reached its peak, with the king surrounded by a team of exceptional ministers: Le Tellier, Louvois, Colbert, Seignelay. This splendid period ended during the 1680s, with the first setbacks, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), the end of great external successes and the gradual disappearance of the entourage of the early years (Colbert died in 1683, Le Tellier in 1685, Seignelay in 1690, Louvois in 1691). The third and final part of the reign, between 1685 and 1715, was more difficult. The aging king finds no similar collaborators. Glorious, this reign was initially a warrior reign. Never before has France experienced so many wars: Thirty Years' War, completed with the Empire in 1648, with Spain only in 1659, War of Devolution (1667-1668), War of Holland (1672-1678), War with Spain (1684), War of the Augsburg League (1688-1697), War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713). It never experienced more victories and conquests: in 1648, the Treaties of Westphalia gave it Alsace, in 1659, the Peace of the Pyrenees l'Artois and Roussillon; in 1668, by the Peace of Aachen, it reached Flanders; in 1678, by the Treaty of Nijmegen, Franche-Comté. In 1681 the king annexed Strasbourg. The following decades were less happy: in 1697 (Treaty of Ryswick), France ceded Luxembourg; in 1713 and 1714 (Treaties of Utrecht and Rastadt), it abandoned Acadia, a prelude to the loss of America, fifty years later. The reign of Louis XIV therefore corresponds quite accurately to the age of French preponderance in Europe: France supplanted Spain; it will soon be supplanted by England, which holds the empire of the seas and the expanses of the New World. To the glory of the victorious and conquering king is added the glory of the king administrator, legislator, protector of arts and letters. Louis XIV and his ministers gave its perfection to monarchical construction: legislation is reformed, nobility subdued, provinces tamed, heresy overthrown, artists and writers put themselves at the service of royal power. Lex una sub uno sole: "one law under one sun": everything must revolve around the master star. All of Europe feels the attraction and prestige of Versailles. The reality is arguably less brilliant than this flattering program: the royal administration remains too few to actually frame the largest and most populous kingdom in Europe; particularisms resist; Protestants set out to enrich the enemies of France. The fact remains, however, that it was the image of the king of glory that imposed itself in memories, as Louis XIV had decided and wanted it. Herein lies the true triumph of this prince: for France and for Europe, for the next century and for centuries to come, for contemporaries as for posterity, he was and remains the King par excellence. Coins and medals, which give us back the Jupiterian profile of the great monarch, are part of this will and success. Louis XIV paid special attention to them: the Great Century is also a great century of numismatics.(SOURCE CGB)Authentic warranty.
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Era: 17th century
Gender: Royal Tokens
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Metal: Silver
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Theme: Louis XVI
Year: 1671
