What are your opinions on pic related? Was he the greatest

>>2246400
High-heels bring all the bitches to the court.

>>2246400
Althought he did some good things, I can't really appreciate him. The way he managed France's colonies was completly retarded and he's responsible for all the territorial losses France had after his reign. One could say he was even one if the reasons the revolution happened.

The greatest king Europe ever had was Khaan Ögedei

>>2246400
I think he's just lucky as fuck.

No other king could do what he did. He was the peek of a relatively short lived style of absolute monarchy.

Some might even say he was the only to truely practice absolute monarchy.

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>>2246400
He was easily the most powerful monarch in Europe, but he was also a total asshole

He unironically jailed a guy because he didnt consider getting cucked by the king as "a honor"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Henri_de_Pardaillan_de_Gondrin

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He was ok but not particularly great. He just reaped the fruits of what those before him had built, most of all Richelieu.

The greatest French king was probably Philip Augustus.

>>2246400
A dickwad but a very, very smart one.

Guy was a great ruler but doomed his descendants.

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>>2246400
he was ok but overrated

>already have one of the most powerful kingdoms in Europe
>make it slightly more powerful while wrapping it in debt, enemies, and rigid autocracy
basically the Justinian of the enlightenment period

as opposed to Old Fritz
>take patchwork backwater kingdom
>turn it into a European power practically overnight

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>tyrant that ends the traditional liberties of the French people, destroy all independent institutions and centralizes all powers in the monarchy
>ally himself with the Turks against the Habsburgs, at the time they were attacking Vienna
>unilaterally attacks the Rhineland out of nowhere, burning churches and fields and everything

Everything else that happened afterwards in Europe can be considered his fault.

The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars? He was the one who damaged the ancient regime.

French-German enmity that led to two world wars? He caused it with his campaign in the Rhineland.

>>2250023
to be fair he wasn't the one that started all that shit

he was just the one that did it the most

>>2249989
German rulers are overrated.

>>2246400
Sad that he looks gay as fuck in that outfit today.

>>2246520
>This pic
God I love being french, vive le Roi Soleil.

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>>2251888
can kick your ass froggy