Louis XIV was known as the Roi-Soleil that meant the Sun King, he lived in the Palace of Versailles which was the symbol of the king and the wealth and everything that the poor did not have.
While France was in misery, Louis XIV lived formally, pomp, and grandeur, the court used to spend grand amounts of money with carriages, buildings, gambling, and feasts.
Later, Louis was afraid to lose power to the Protestant, so he revoked the Huguenots (Protestants) rights to worship their faith. This way, the Huguenot's class left the country and took with them the industrious segment of French Society.
There was a flood of emigration from France to other countries like England and Holland. This made French economy collapse and this paved the way to the French Revolution that erupted 74 years later.
