Louis Xiv Negative Effects

What would happen if someone had complete power over you with every aspect of your life? Some people believe they should certainly follow the rules of absolute monarchs, while other people believe the absolute monarchs should have no right to grant any rules without the society having a say. In some degree, the absolute monarchs should have came to a compromise with their people before they make laws. Absolute monarchs have caused negative ramifications with their type of power. However, the positive affects outweigh the negative affects. The negative affects that they caused for their people were: only one person had a voice, having absurd taxes and they took away the humor in England. The positive effects were they helped to develop Europe and Europe would not have grew over time if the reigns of absolute monarchs never existed, the territory got expanded and rich nobles were brung down. The reign of the French King Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715) has been considered the best example of absolutism. But also, Louis XIV has done positive and negative things during his reign. For example, a positive …show more content…
He built a palace with 226 rooms and a living capacity of 5,001 and invited all the nobles to come live with him in what he called -- The Palace of Versailles. All the nobles left their homes, villages, castles, towns or whatever to come live in Versailles. By them doing that, Louis XIV gained more land and authority; The nobles got to live in Versailles but Louis had stripped the nobles of all their effective power and kept them busy by giving them daily rituals which gave him a more absolute reign. Additionally, the negative thing that Louis did during his reign was making huge state debts by building the Versailles palace and declaring wars (especially with Austria and England) which cost too much money. All he could do is raise the taxes and hope for the best. It didn't work out, and France went