With religious uniformity under Louis XIV’s belt, he aimed to re-establish France’s system of government. For ages the nobility had influence over the king’s actions and threatened to make France a weak monarchy, but Louis XIV did not tolerate such influence because he believed that a country could only be strong with an absolute system of government; he wanted to ensure that he was the only governing body. He sought to weaken the power of the nobility he accomplished this by replacing state officials with people from the middle class such as; merchants, laborers, etc. Not only did he strip them of their positions, he exempted them from taxes to further weaken their influence. If they were not fiscally contributing to the crown, they could
