Louis XI

noun

1423–83, king of France 1461–83 (son of Charles VII).

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It was naturally to the effect that a return to the meagre scale of imposts under Louis XI.
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Finally, though not before the reign of Louis XI., an armed force was established for the preservation of police.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Henry Hallam
They soon 824 appeared the most formidable among the new feudal chiefs so imprudently called into being by Louis XI.
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With very simple tastes, an inquiring mind, and an imagination always at work, he combined a certain easy good-nature Louis XI.
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Louis XI built the Lady chapel of vreux, in whose windows he depicted his coronation.
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British Dictionary definitions for Louis XI

Louis XI

noun

1423–83, king of France (1461–83); involved in a struggle with his vassals, esp the duke of Burgundy, in his attempt to unite France under an absolute monarchy

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