Henri IV (le Grand) (1553-1610)
Chef des Huguenots pendant les guerres de religion, Henri IV renforcera le pouvoir de la monarchie catholique à l'issue de la pacification du royaume et la promulgation de l'édit de Nantes. Premier souverain de la dynastie des Bourbons, il deviendra le plus populaire des rois de France.
Child of : Antoine de Bourbon-Vendôme and Jeanne III d'Albret King of France (between 1589 and 1610) King of Navarre - Spain (between 1572 and 1610)
Marie de Médicis (1575-1642)
Louis XIII (le Juste) (1601-1643)
Anne d'Autriche (1601-1666)
Queen of France (between 1615 and 1643)
Régente of France (between 1643 and 1661)
Louis Dieudonné Louis XIV (le Roi Soleil) (1638-1715)
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. He inherited the Crown at the age of four: he did not actually assume personal control of the government until the death of his chief minister, Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis XIV, known as The Sun King (French: Le Roi Soleil) and as Louis the Great (French: Louis le Grand), ruled France for seventy-two years - a longer reign than any other French or other "major" European monarch.
Child of : Louis XIII (le Juste) and Anne d'Autriche King of France (between 1643 and 1715)
Louis XV (le Bien Aimé) (1710-1774)
Louis XV, called the Well-Beloved (le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1715 to 1774. Miraculously surviving the death of his entire family, he was loved by the French at the beginning of his reign. However, in time, his inability to reform the French monarchy and his policy of appeasement on the European stage lost him the support of his people, and he died one of the most unpopular kings of France.
Child of : Louis and Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie Duke of Anjou (between 1715 and 1723) King of France (between 1722 and 1774)
Louis XVI (1754-1793)
Louis XVI, born Louis-Auguste de France (23 August 1754 - 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August 1792, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed on 21 January 1793. His execution signaled the end of absolute monarchy in France and would eventually bring about the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Child of : Louis and Marie-Josèphe de Saxe King of France (between 1774 and 1793) |
