Those who saw me managing the cares of royalty with such ease and with such confidence induced me to add [to the image of the sun] the sphere of the earth, and as its motto NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR, by which they meant to flatter the ambitions of a young king, in that with all my capacities, I would be just as capable of ruling still other empires as would the sun of illuminating still other worlds with its rays. Not sure if you can credit either of those to Protestantism or not.He fought mostly against the Spanish/Austrian/Dutch Habsburgs who encircled France, the English were an afterthought.Why hasn't Trump come out in front and support Hong Kong democracy? The Sun King has no allegiance to peasants and you will only be used as a bargaining chip in high level negotiations =)"The Sun King has no allegiance to peasants and you will only be used as a bargaining chip in high level negotiations"Reminds me of the current buffoon in the Oval Office. His most notable accomplishment is the building of the palace at Versailles. He founded colonies in America, Africa and India, tried to seize Siam (as Thailand was then known), sent missionaries and mathematicians to the Emperor of China and launched the struggle for France’s global markets which continues to this day. Under pressure from the English, Swedish and especially the Dutch, France retreated and returned the region to Spain, gaining only some frontier towns in Flanders. In the American revolution, his role was mostly symbolic.
Persecuted by the French Catholic government during a violent period, Huguenots fled the country in the 17th century, creating Huguenot settlements all over It’s one of France’s most powerful religious, architectural and cultural symbols—and images of Notre-Dame de Paris in flames evoke questions about how the city, and the cathedral, will move forward. Those who saw me managing the cares of royalty with such ease and with such confidence induced me to add [to the image of the sun] the sphere of the earth, and as its motto NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR, by which they meant to flatter the ambitions of a young king, in that with all my capacities, I would be just as capable of ruling still other empires as would the sun of illuminating still other worlds with its rays. nos. The motto he adopted early in his reign, in 1662, expressed his hopes and desires: “Nec pluribus impar” (literally “Not unequal to more”), meaning “not incapable of ruling other dominions”, as well as “not unequal to many enemies”.Options: he was "sort of" France... he was kind to his country... he was immature and speaking in German, as a child of France ("Ich bin ein Kind!"). Born in 1638, Louis XIV became king at age 4 following the death of his father, Louis XIII, and remained on the throne for the next 72 years. The court turned away from math and physics in favor of botany and pharmacology. They were in full possession of true Chinese culture but this was more useful because it could be used *against* China.
He viewed himself as the direct representative of God, endowed with a divine right to wield the absolute power of the monarchy. It was often inscribed together with the symbol of the "Sun King": a head within rays of sunlight. In the late 1680s, responding to yet another spate of expansionist campaigns by Louis’ armies, they and several smaller countries formed a coalition known as the Grand Alliance. Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of absolutism in Europe.
The name of the blog, Nec Pluribus Impar, was the motto of Louis XIV and nobody really knows for sure what it means. I thought Confucianism/Maoism was great and the Chinese were better than Westerners. HK fights for its democracy but the Orange Idiot uses them for better trade deals.Trump: We stand with the Hong Kong democracy protesters. In 1685, the devoutly Catholic king revoked the Edict of Nantes, issued by his grandfather Henry IV in 1598, which had granted freedom of worship and other rights to French Protestants, known as Roughly 1 million Huguenots lived in France at the time, and many were artisans or other types of skilled workers. I’m old enuf to remember the French trying to ban English words.Since the NBA seems to be pro-China, this could get fun.Both Trump and Louis XIV believe the sun rotates around their presence.It's a litote, a French construction whereby a double negation is high emphasis. Look it upI dunno about that. The "S" letter (for Sun) with the motto Nec pluribus impar. It is now time that I govern them myself. During Louis XIV’s reign, his main goal was “One king, one law, one faith.” He achieved the goals “one king” and “one law”, by limiting the power of others, and by uniting the French religion, he achieved “one faith”. In the French one, he was one of the important men of the first phase (1789-1791).
To illustrate his status, he chose the sun as his emblem and cultivated the image of an omniscient and infallible “Roi-Soleil” (“Sun King”) around whom the entire realm orbited.