The cultural achievements accomplished by these figures contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language and its king. Louis XIV worked successfully to create a centralized state governed from the capital in order to sweep away the fragmented feudalism which had hitherto persisted in France, thus giving rise to the modern state...
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As a result of his efforts, which seemed absolutist, Louis XIV became the archetypal absolute monarch. The phrase "L'Etat, c'est moi" ("I am the State") is frequently attributed to him, though this is considered by historians to be a historical inaccuracy and is more likely to have been conceived by political opponents as a way of confirming the stereotypical view of the absolutism he represented...
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