HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Walkover, Protestantism, Sardinia
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His blunders: sent his grandson to spain with a big french entourage that took all the positions in court away from the spaniards. Separating the court from the spanish ppl. Just a french puppet: french troops crossed over into the spanish netherlands in the name of the new spanish king. Breached the treaty that louis" signed saying that the fortresses will be kept under dutch control. His actual aim was to have philip of anjou to have a shot at the french throne in case of a disaster so that he could leave spain to reclaim the french throne. Louis left europe holding their breath, thinking that the french wanted both thrones: portuguese license expired and phillip had to find a new company to carry out the slave trade. French guinea company (half of the company was run by the bourbons) Major boost to louis xiv"s fortune/ french fortune.
