Louis XIV restructured the administration of the French government by all of the following EXCEPT
A) personally dominating the actions of his ministers and secretaries.
B) adding loyal followers from relatively new aristocratic families to the royal council.
C) making the court a main arena where rival aristocratic factions jockeyed for power.
D) using Versailles as a place where powerful subjects came to find favors and offices for themselves and their supporters.
E) removing the central policy-making machinery of government from his own court and household.
E
You might also like to view...
In the Byzantine Empire, themes were ________
A) provincial rulers B) administrative districts C) minor religious sects D) poets
The practice of impressment involved
A) ?attempts by the British to convince their opponents that the royal navy was all-powerful at sea. B) ?the seizure of U.S. sailors who had defected to the French during the Napoleonic Wars. C) ?the French policy of forcing all nations to impress their soldiers into the French army. D) ?the seizure of sailors from U.S. merchant ships for service on British warships. E) ?None of these
In the manorialism system, what was usually at the center of the manor?
a. the village b. a watermill c. a church d. a castle e. a school
Researchers at MIT in the early 1930s, led by ________, created the first analog computer.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).