the "Citizen King" - called this because he was a "bourgeois" king This question is more appropriately placed in the 19th century context rather than the French Revolution the "Citizen King" - called this because he was a "bourgeois" king This question is more appropriately placed in the 19th century context rather than the French Revolution
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He was known as the Sun King.
Le Roi soleil - The Sun King
Le Roi de Soleil (the Sun King)The Sun King It really wasn't a nickname as we think of them today; courtiers didn't walk up to him in the halls of Versailles and say "hey, SK. 'Sup?" It was more like an artificial title. He wanted to be associated with Apollo's power and beauty.Because that is a name that he chose for himself.
King Louis XVI
he claimed land for France when king Louis XIV was king