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Discuss the view that Louis XIV of France was a great king-‘the grand monarch.’

  • UPSC 1991
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Louis XIV's 72-year reign (1643–1715), the longest in European history, earned him the epithet "le Grand Monarque" for the scale of his power, court, and ambition — yet the verdict on his actual greatness as a ruler is genuinely contested.

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  • The Case for Greatness: Consolidation and Reform
  • The Case Against: Costs and Contradictions
  • Weighing the Verdict

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