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The beginning of Louis XIV’s personal rule — On 10 March 1661, the day after Mazarin’s death, the king announces he will govern alone
The day after his chief minister’s death, the young king summoned the chancellor and the secretaries of state to tell them he would henceforth govern himself. It was the end of the ministériat, that first age of absolutism in which power was concentrated in a first minister’s hands. (Editorial synthesis)
The beginning of Louis XIV’s personal rule took place on 10 March 1661. (source: Château de Versailles)
The beginning of Louis XIV’s personal rule ended in the end of the ministériat: the king governs without a chief minister. (source: Château de Versailles)
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