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He built fortresses around the country that kept France's borders inviolate for a century.

He reduced population pressure in France by the bloodletting in his endless wars, along with the attendant disease and famines.

He reshaped the French economy, ruining it with excessive taxation, endless building projects, and the revocation of the Edit of Nantes which forced the French Protestants, the most dynamic sector of the population, to flee abroad and enrich their new countries.

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