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No. Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply. Players and gifters must be 18 or over. Hello history, friends, patrons all, and welcome to part two of this extra episode,

which examines whether Louis XIV's foreign policy was successful. Last time we delved into some background

details which set the scene essentially past the point of the Franco-Dutch War and into the

reunions, later periods of Louis' reign, but still parts of history that we're fairly familiar

with if we've kept up to date with the recent parts of history that we're fairly familiar with if we've

kept up to date with the recent batch of episodes that I've released. So that was where we ended the

episode last time, and here we resume our analysis and reach our conclusion. Expect some

spoilers ahead, so if you don't want to know where our narrative is going, maybe don't listen to this,

but ah, come on, just listen to it anyway

because it's a good one.

Was Louis XIV's foreign policy successful?

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

I'm going to... The The The history of France in the 16th century was characterized by the same religious turmoil that ripped the rest of Europe apart and culminated in the 30 years' war.

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