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"On some occasions he showed great skill but on others he committed monumental blunders" Discuss the comment on Louis XIV religious policy between 1661 and 1715.
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"On some occasions he showed great skill but on others he committed monumental blunders" Discuss the comment on Louis XIV religious policy between 1661 and 1715. Louis showed lots of skill during his time on the thrown, but he also made lots of mistakes too. One blunder that was a terrible thing, because of Louis was the Dragonades, which ruined people's lives and was a cruel and immoral thing to do. Louis wanted to have no more Huguenots in Britain, so he decided to find ways to convert them into Catholics, which was Louis's religion. He did this by many ways, and it was "gradual and piecemeal". Louis decided to but "the billeting of troops in Huguenot households, as a means of intimidating Huguenots into conversion." There were stories of rape, pillage, throwing people into fires and having them torn to pieces by dogs. Louis blamed these stories on...
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