Luis XIV

Louis XIV is considered the biggest in French history. Louis XIV placed a Bourbon on the Spanish throne, until then the main enemy of France, ending centuries of rivalry with that European country dating back to the time of Charles I. The Bourbons were maintained on the Spanish throne for the rest of the thirteenth century but from 1808 were overthrown and restored several times. Their wars and extravagant palaces bankrupted the State (although it is true that France was recovered in a few years), which led him to raise taxes on the peasants and the nobility and clergy had exemption from taxes.