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| North America:British colonial forces in South Carolina drive hostile Yamassee tribesmen across the Spanish border into Florida. The Calvert family regains the Maryland colony. Slave population of 24 percent has increased from 5 percent in 1671. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Louis XIV dies from smallpox after a 72 year reign. The Regency in France is a relatively tranquil time in relations between France and England that lasts until the 1740s. The Regent feels a constant threat from his nephew, Philip V, on the throne in Spain. As a grandson of Louis XIV he has not abandoned his claim to the throne of France. Geroge I on England is challanged by Jacobites from the highlands. theater by Nicholas Rowe; music by Handel. | |||||||||||
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| Louis XIV dies September 1 at age 76 after a 72 year reign. His great-grandson, 5, will reign until 1774 as Louis XV, initially with Philip II Bourbon, 41, duc d’Orleans as Regent. | Fort St. Jean Baptiste is built by request of Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis to check the Spanish expansion eastward at Natchitoches. | The Superior Council is founded on a permanent basis in 1715 as a court. Louisiana¹s governor and the king's lieutenants are honorific nonvoting members. Working members include the commissaire-ordonnateur (commissary) who is also the first judge, the attorney general, the chief notary, the councillors and a huissier (bailiff) | With the death of Louis XIV the power of French classes takes a shift. Louis XIV had given the power to bourgeois secretaires d'etat like Colbert and Louvois who owed more to the king. He deliberately excluded princes of the blood and great nobles, the noblesse d'epee who were poorly educated, lacked administrative skills and owned large areas of France, but were constantly broke compared to the rising middle class. He also excluded the noblesse de robe. After 1715 the old aristocracy, said to descend from the Franks, begins to assert itself. In the Regent's deal with the Regent a series of councils are set up to manage affairs. Beneath the Conseil de Regence, presided by the Regent and consisting of blood princes and great noblemen were seven lower counsils: internal affairs, religious matters, war, navy, finances, foreign affairs and commerce. All were presided over by great noblemen, with strong representation by the high civil servents of the noblesse de robe who were the experienced administrators. This system lasted all of three years before the aristocratic amateurs gave way to the secretaires d'stat that had administered under Louis XIV. Next the more recently enobled branch of the aristocracy, the noblesse de robe, entrenched in the pariliament tried its hand. |
The Regency sets up a Conseil des Finances and a Chambre de Justice to work out a solution for the terrible financial legacy left by Louis XIV. This included a heavy debt a huge budget deficit and the revenues of several future years already spent. Many schemes were tried: devaluing the government bills, reducing interest on rentes and tinkinging with coinage and capital. At this point John Law appears on the scene |
Louis XIV Alexandrine de la Chaise Pradel |
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