He was significant for a few reasons: Government control - by building the palace at Versailles and holding court there, Louis was able to control the policy-making in absolute France.
In 1685, Louis, a devout Catholic, revoked the Edict of Nantes which had allowed freedom of worship to French Protestants (Huguenots). Around 200,000 Huguenots, many of them skilled craftsmen, fled to Holland and England.
