Obama the Pitchfork Operator: A Remake of the Soviet Classic
but one thing that I never understood in my childern’s history lessons do they not teach the correlation between the Sun King’s excess debt build up, which was never dealt with, and the anger in the taxed classes that had to pay for all of his glorious works in France…that is what I am talking about…French history is not always objective when it comes to Louis 14, I realize that the effects took nearly two generations for the backlash to grow…and I wonder, are our grandchildren going to react to the debt created today?
Louis IV lived a century earlier, while he has a high standard of expenses for his representations, the economical situation of France wasn’t as bad as for Louis XVI, he had good collaborators such Mazarin when he was young, Colbert, Richelieu.. all excellent gestionaires. He managed to control the rebel nobles in forcing them to court and live in Versailles, thus they hadn’t time enough to launch a war against his partisans. Plus their living in Versailles wasn’t gratuitous, he made them pay the cost of their inhabitations, food, etc.. only his favorites and close friends could enjoy freely his sun-light. And when it wasn’t enough, he could expropriate and put in jail his rich creditors, such Fouquet. Otherwise, he could also think of a small expedition on his neighbours, sometimes he gained some revenues, sometimes he got ruined too 
