LEWIS XIV. le Grand (king at five years of age), anno 1643. He was at first styled Dieu-donne, because the French considered him as the gift of heaven, granted to their prayers after the queen had been barren 22 years. This prince (Anne of Austria) was declared regent by Lewis XIII. and saw herself under a necessity to continue the war against Philip IV. king of Spain, her brother. The duke d'Enghien was made general of the French armies; and so signal was the success of this renowned warrior (afterwards prince of Condé, and known by the style of the great Condé), that his victories brought on the advantageous treaties of Munster, in 1648, between France, the emperor Ferdinand III. and Christina queen of Sweden: See BRITAIN, United PROVINCES, &c. Lewis XIV. died in 1715, aged 77.