Nine Years War
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- Created on: 11-05-15 12:07
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- Nine Years War
- Aims
- Defensive - his border. Louis carried out what he hoped would be "limited defensive operations." Treasure - "Paranoria over French security."
- Did not want a long war
- Causes
- Reunions - Louis had bullied and antagonised Europe with these deubious claims to land.
- "The Nine Years War was the result of 20 years of French Aggression"
- Louis' paranoria over French security - wanted to scare the Reuinion gains
- Religious - Louis wnted to restore his place among Catholic Princes as the "most Christian King" so began to persecute Huguenots
- Louis' own meglamania
- Results
- Treaty of Ryswick - lost all gains since 1697 except Strasbourg and Alsace Lorraine - returned to the Duke but still under control
- The peace was unpopular in France
- Fiscal system was breaking down - poverty in France
- Louis could not carry on so made peace, influenced by Spanish Succession
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