HIS103Y1 Lecture 3: May 25th Lecture 3- Summer
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Lecture # 3- the foreign policy of louis xiv and the origins of the dutch war. Peace treaty tried to settle the issue and make sure no similar issue would occur and the peace treaty also tried to settle religious issues > catholics and protestants. Spain and austria stayed spate and france emerged as the most powerful state the lead france to become the most powerful and dominant state with cardinal. Richelieu (he was catholic and france is a catholic state) siding with the. Protestants and maintaining national interest dictated that this was for the. Given the relations between france and spain, the treaty of pyrenees > the. Spanish agreed to marry louis xiv to the young maria teresa pretty much to get the french off their back when philip the king of spain died, louis xiv went after his rightful inheritance.
