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Louis XIII (French pronunciation: [lwi tʁɛz]; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
10. Mai 2024 · Louis XIII (born September 27, 1601, Fontainebleau, France—died May 14, 1643, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was the king of France from 1610 to 1643, who cooperated closely with his chief minister, the Cardinal de Richelieu, to make France a leading European power.
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Louis of France. Title. King of France and Navarre. Life at Court. From 1601 to 1643. Reign of Louis XIII. Ses traces à Versailles. Origins of the Palace of Versailles. The son of Henry IV and Marie de' Medici, Louis XIII (1601-1643) became king of France in 1610 upon the death of his father.
Although absolute monarchy in France was first set up during his reign the King himself worked in close cooperation with his ministers. He was often hailed as Louis the Just by his subjects. Himself a flute player, writer and composer, he was also a great patron of art and culture. He started the trend of wearing wigs and thus developed a ...
The young King Louis XIII was only a figurehead during his early reign; power actually rested with his mother, Marie de Médicis. In 1614, the clergymen of Poitou elected Richelieu as one of their representatives to the States-General.
According to its terms, France gained Roussillon and Cerdagne in the south and Artois and a number of border towns in the north; and the Rhine became France’s frontier in the east. By the treaty, too, Louis XIV was betrothed to the infanta Marie-Thérèse, the elder daughter of Philip IV of Spain.
legitimizing activities of two important patrons of the early French theater, the Cardinal de Richelieu and Louis xII, the patronage of the-ater often gave rise to various forms of por-traiture that contributed to the public acknowl-edgment of a patron's influence over culture and society.3 Recognizing Patrons
