Louis XIV

Hello friends
Because you have an interest in History have corresponded with me for years if not decades, I selected each of you for cruel and unusual punishment…!
This interview produced by “Adventures in Historyland” in Great Britain will - if you wish - give you an idea of what I have been musing about in the last years that resulted in the four volumes of Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715 published by Helion.
See link below
Cheers - René
IF YOU’VE GOT IT, DOMINATE EUROPE WITH IT. Louis XIV, & the Economy of War with René Chartrand

 

17th C French silver is hard to come by because most of it was melted down to finance the wars. Louis required the aristocracy, whose business was war (so far as he was concerned), to turn over their silver to finance it. A lot of early porcelain is based on silver shapes because silverware was simply no longer available.