In the history of public life, Louis XIII of France is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis XIII of France as King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643 (1601–1643).
Louis XIII of France was born at Fontainebleau in 1601. His recorded nationality is the Kingdom of France.
The seventeenth century built the machinery of public intellectual life - societies, journals, correspondence networks - and reputations could be made at a distance.
He worked as politician.
His name is attached above all to establishing the Académie française, and ending the revolt of the French nobility. Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
His work was formally recognised with the Order of the Holy Spirit.
That the work was done from the Kingdom of France matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Louis XIII of France died in 1643, aged 42. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as politician
