I Am Louis XIV

As I said before, personal emotions will always give way to national affairs. Although Philip, the Duke of Anjou, is still depressed, and Marie Mancini is preoccupied, the king can only give the former a promise to go hunting in Versailles together. Give the latter a permission to enter and leave the king's study at any time, and then continue to work endlessly for France-the most important thing is probably what Bishop Mazarin mentioned, intending to let Christina Alexandra Madame was elected to be the queen of Naples' planner.

Here we must first mention the history of Naples. Naples is a combination of a region in southern Italy and Sicily. It was jointly occupied by the Byzantines, Lombards and Turks. Later, the Normans drove them all out. Divided into a country, that is, Naples, but it has never been recognized by the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor. Decades later, the area was taken over by the Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen family, but in 1266 In 1999, Charles of Anjou, the younger brother of King Louis IX of France, obtained this country at the request of the Pope—of course, Clement IV at that time was a French pope, and everyone knew where this request came from ——At that time, the last member of the Hohenstaufen family, Xiaokang Latin resolutely raised his troops against Charlie, but was defeated and captured. Then, with the Pope's acquiescence and the people's uproar, Charlie cut off Xiaokang Latin's head without hesitation. The family was extinct, and the last bit of trouble they might have caused was eliminated.

After that, Charles moved the capital from Sicily to Naples, showing his great ambitions, but like every ruler, he was not friendly to the people of Naples, expropriated and acted recklessly, which triggered the famous Sicilian Evening Prayer In the riots, Sicily split from Naples and became the possession of the Aragonese royal family in Spain. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Naples was briefly prosperous, but from the late fourteenth century to the early fifteenth century, the Anjou royal family The civil war continued, and as a result, Alfonso V of Spain became a fisherman in the fight between snipe and clam. He used the title of Two Sicilies in 1443, pointing to Naples and Sicily at the same time-in 1495, it was taken by the French king Charles VIII took it back, but in less than ten years, Spain gained the right to rule these two places. After that, Spain also smashed it without a trace of pity, which triggered the Massaniero incident—not long ago , that is, in July of 1947.

At that time, if France was not in chaos, Bishop Mazarin really wanted to intervene, and it is the same now. The Neapolitans are full of anger and resentment towards the Spaniards. It is not difficult to repeat the Luo incident, and then they can introduce the former Queen of Sweden. Among the nobles, Christina has a good reputation, because she has always been keen on conferring nobles to stabilize her rule, but businessmen and officials The people didn't like her, and maybe the commoners, maybe because she was too extravagant as queen - she was a lot of money, but every king was like that.

It is very simple for her to become the controller of Naples. The support of France, the approval of the Roman Church, the promise to the Neapolitans that they will never levy taxes arbitrarily, and maybe get married and have children. These few things are not difficult. The problem lies in the French king and the bishop She has a room of her own in the Louvre, but she stays with the queen mother more to win the favor of the queen mother. She also intends to please the king. She did not give the king expensive gifts, but Gave him a person - René Descartes.

René Descartes, as a philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and theologian, was deeply favored by the former Swedish Queen Christina, but the Roman Church hated him because although he always insisted that he was a devout Catholic, But he has always been promoting secret deism and atheism. The French mathematician and one of the king's teachers, Blaise Pascal, accused the old man, saying that there is no God in his philosophy, and he does not need God. But God, he shouldn't have said such a thing, because he made Louis interested in it, and he asked Bishop Mazarin to find him Descartes' books, including "Geometry" and "Refractive Optics" and "Meteorology" was placed on the king's bookshelf. When Mrs. Christina saw it, she told the king that she was willing to let Mr. Descartes come to France, because he was a rare witty, profound and interesting scholar. ——The king asked her to write a letter to Mr. Descartes, and sent two trustworthy people as messengers to meet the old man.

Descartes was born in 1596. After he won the appreciation of the Queen of Sweden, he decided to move to Sweden. Even though Her Majesty reminded him that the cold weather in Sweden was not suitable for an old man, he still gave birth to a child a few years ago. He was seriously ill, and on the advice of a doctor, he returned to the Netherlands, but because of the hostility of the church, he was not so happy - with the invitation of the King of France, he naturally obeyed, and came to Paris, Dada The Earl of Niang found him a residence outside the Louvre, and the king gave him a sum of money to settle him—he had no wife and children, so he became very rich at once, let alone the favor of the king, he immediately He became a guest at various parties, served by servants, fine food and warm clothes. Mr. Descartes' health soon recovered. Although he was not as good as a young man, he was still able to ride horses and play tennis, but Most of the time, he would rather lie on that comfortable big bed and let his thoughts run wild.

The king liked this gift very much, and the king had several long talks with her because of it, but it was precisely because of this that Louis felt that Mrs. Christina was more than capable as a king, and her emotions were too strong. Rich, overly complicated thoughts, easily driven by her own personal feelings, and her personality is too paranoid, these are just some small flaws for a noble lady, but for a ruler, these weaknesses will be overwhelmed by her enemies Zoom in infinitely.

He spoke to Bishop Mazarin, and the bishop said, as a matter of course: "It is precisely because she is such a person that we need her to be Queen of Naples."

This sentence made Louis laugh. Yes, their original intention was not to find a real, authoritative and capable monarch for Naples, but to build a solid barrier between France and Spain.

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But the last thing they wanted to happen happened. Just as Christina was about to leave for Pesaro, where she was waiting for the final result of the negotiations between Naples and the French, a group of envoys from Spain suddenly appeared in Paris. The arrival made Bishop Mazaran immediately suspend the plan, and there was a possibility of premature death.

Of course Christina was very angry about this, who leaked this secret? She came to Paris, nominally, to ask the King of France to mediate with her cousin, now the King of Sweden, over her annuity. Very few people knew about it, almost a handful of people.

"I want to find that man," she said to the king, and then went to Avignon in the name of pilgrimage.