Not opinion, since this was actually the case and is up for littler interpretation.
The effect of Louis XIV’s reign on the French army is that he
was able to make the French army to be loyal to him and in the same time, to be
strong—mainly because of the reason of how the state fed, paid, trained and
supplied the army that could be at least 30,000 of them.
It was internationally recognized in 1991.
