King Louis XIV’s detrimental policies regarding his absolute power negatively reflected on the daily life of his citizens, causing heavy taxes, a large socio-economic gap between the upper and lower classes, and consequently forced the vast majority to live a life of poverty. In King Louis XIV’s quest to complete absolutism, it came at the expense of his people. Throughout eighteen million French citizens, fifteen million were peasants, toiling on farms for more than half of the day. These peasants were nicked “la lie du peuple,” which translates to the dregs of the people because they truly were the refuse of French society. Although they toiled all day while making close to no money, King Louis XIV’s quest for absolutism had extremely deleterious
