Louis XIV of France (baptised as Louis-Dieudonné) (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of the Navarre from 1643. Louis established the French absolute monarchy and made France the main political power in western Europe in his time.
Quotes
- Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents et un ingrat.
- Every time that I fill a high office, I create a hundred discontented men and an ingrate.
- Quoted in Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), ch.26
- Every time that I fill a high office, I create a hundred discontented men and an ingrate.
- Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées.
- Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours.
- I am going away, but the State will always remain.
- Je mettrais plutôt toute l'Europe d'accord que deux femmes.
- I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
- Comte de Mirabeau. Esprit de Mirabeau (v.1, page 246)
- I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
Disputed
- L'État, c'est moi.
- I am the State.
- probably apocryphal; reported in the late 18th century: C. D. Erhard, Betrachtungen über Leopolds des Weisen Gesetzgebung in Toscana, Richter, 1791, p. 30. Widely known and denounced as apocryphal by the early 19th century. Jean Etienne François Marignié, The king can do no wrong: Le roi ne peut jamais avoit tort, le roi ne peut mal faire, Le Normant, 1818 p. 12
- I am the State.
- J'ai failli attendre.
- I almost had to wait.
- Regarded as apocryphal by E. Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire (4th ed. 1884). ch.xlviii
- I almost had to wait.
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