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7/20/2025, 1:42:20 PM
>>17856532
>doesnt want to go war and just uses it as a threat to get concessions from his opponents
>One was dubious legal shenanigans as he would claim some medieval french lord actually owned the land back then so it actually belongs to france
>the second method was threatening a two front war against the hapsburgs whenever there was turkish war on the horizon to get land off the HRE
None of those two schemes ever worked without inciting a war. Louis XIV. absolutely wanted war and saw it as a legitimate tool of gaining territory (as it is).
Another aspect of the wars of Louis XIV (especially those located around the Rhine) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of civil infrastructures and expulsion and forced resettlement of civillians into more secured french territories. Contemporaries noted that the devastation caused by the french was comparable to that of the 30 Years War - but occuring within a much smaller time frame.
>doesnt want to go war and just uses it as a threat to get concessions from his opponents
>One was dubious legal shenanigans as he would claim some medieval french lord actually owned the land back then so it actually belongs to france
>the second method was threatening a two front war against the hapsburgs whenever there was turkish war on the horizon to get land off the HRE
None of those two schemes ever worked without inciting a war. Louis XIV. absolutely wanted war and saw it as a legitimate tool of gaining territory (as it is).
Another aspect of the wars of Louis XIV (especially those located around the Rhine) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of civil infrastructures and expulsion and forced resettlement of civillians into more secured french territories. Contemporaries noted that the devastation caused by the french was comparable to that of the 30 Years War - but occuring within a much smaller time frame.
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