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Louis XIV, c  ©Louis XIV, the 'Sun King', was king of France from to and widely held to be the greatest monarch of his age.

Louis was born on 5 September at St Germain-en-Laye.

He became king at the age of four on the death of his father, Louis XIII. While Louis was a child, his mother, Anne of Austria, served as regent, assisted by Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin.

Louis's early years were marked by a series of rebellions against his mother and Mazarin, which were known as the 'Fronde'.

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These created in him a lifelong fear of rebellion, and a dislike of Paris, prompting him to spend more and more time in Versailles, southwest of Paris. In , he married Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV of Spain.

When Mazarin died in , the year-old Louis decided to rule without a chief minister.

He regarded himself as an absolute monarch, with his power coming directly from God. He carefully cultivated his image and took the sun as his emblem. Between and , he