HI123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Round Shot, Arquebus, Matchlock
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Functions: he transformed the states relationship with the nobles. Those who obeyed the king were given status or goods. Those who refused to obey him were cast out of the system: once louis xiv had tamed the nobility he could improve how the state. He louis xiv overhauled the french tax system. He had large revenues, and the french treasury was far wealthier under louis. Xiv than under anyone else: louis xiv"s greatest war ministers were michel le tellier and his son. Francois-michel le tellier, marquis de louvois: they completely transformed the army of louis xiv. They invented the modern army (the type and style we are still familiar with today) They transformed how soldiers served the king. Before louis xiv the army was made up of men serving. The army of the sun king him through contract. The troops were either foreign mercenaries hire for war, or they were raised on his behalf by the aristocrats of france.
