Where To Stream La Guerre des Trônes la Véritable Histoire de l'Europe Season 4 Episode 3
Louis XIV, monarque absolu (1661-1669)
- Aired December 25, 2020
- 60 Min
After having been received with pomp by his superintendent of finances, Nicolas Fouquet, in Vaux-le-Vicomte, Louis XIV suspected his minister of having enriched himself on the royal treasury. He conceives a deep jealousy of it. For many months, he plotted his vengeance and had him arrested in Nantes on September 5, 1661. Dazzled by Vaux-le-Vicomte, he asked those who had made the magnificence of it to work on the beautification of Versailles. The shock of Fouquet's arrest is immense among the...