Game Playing Genius or Jealous Paranoid Hack?

>>2189641
Both

he was a frog, so easily the later

I'd say he overplayed, his wars wrecked public finances which would eventually to the revolution and the downfall of the Bourbons

>>2189696
the 7 years war was really what wrecked public finances, not Louis XIV's wars

>>2189703
The debt problem already escalated after the war of the spanish succession. Things were fixed superficially in the following decades, however, France didn't manage to pay off enough of the amassed debt and as a result new wars regularly led to a crisis.

>>2189793
source is "The Financial Decline of a Great Power: War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France"

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Let's sum him up in one sentence

>Megalomaniac crossdresser declares war on all Europe