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Griebel, Heinrich: Vom Beginn des Dreißigjährigen Krieges bis zum Tode Wilhelms I. Lehrbuch der deutschen Geschichte in Verbindung mit der Geschichte Bayerns und mit Einschluß der wichtigsten Tatsachen der Kulturgeschichte. Erlangen; Leipzig: Deichertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1902, 32.

The age of Louis XIV and the French supremacy in Europe

The author of the textbook discusses the power shift within the European state system through the Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia. France under Louis XIV used his power to wage wars that changed the territorial relations of many states.Due to his considerable influence on "spiritual and moral life", especially in Frankeich and Germany, the period from the Peace of Westphalia to the reign of Frederick the Great was named after him.

Griebel, Heinrich

The history textbook is part of a two-part work. It was written for teaching at the middle schools in Bavaria. Years later, in 1918, appeared a third edition with a changed title: "From the Peace of Westphalia to the outbreak of the World War". This edition also contains some changes, such as various cuts, extensions, alterations, a different arrangement of Bavarian history and a supplement by the representation of the period 1871-1914.

Deichertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung

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VIII. From the Peace of Westphalia to the French Revolution. From 1648 to 1789.

A. the age of Louis XIV. 1648-1740.(Time of absolutism and Cabinet Wars.)

§ 82.

Louis XIV. 1643-1715. Leopold I 1658-1705.

1. The course of the Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia had brought about a change in the meaning and position of the states. The Habsburg monarchies (Austria-Spain), which had been the most powerful since the days of Charles V, sank down from their proud height, and France overweight in Europe. The most influential person of the continent in the following period was the French King Louis XIV. He was the initiator of most wars, brought about a considerable change in the territorial relations of many states, and also had such a decisive influence on the spiritual and moral life of his time and in the period that followed, on thinking, customs, literature, art, especially in France and Germany, that the whole age from the Peace of Westphalia to the reign of Frederick the Great was named after him.

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