Ludovico Magno, -to Louis the Great-.-Louis XIV- of France. (Antique Print).

Original copper engraved print, a few edge nicks and some small worm holes. Louis XIV, or the Sun King, (1638 - 1715), king of France (1643-1715) who ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of its most brilliant periods and who remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age. Internationally, in a series of wars between 1667 and 1697, he extended France's eastern borders at the expense of the Habsburgs and then, in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), engaged a hostile European coalition in order to secure the Spanish throne for his grandson. Very rare item.