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DYNASTY
PRINCE LOUIS I OF MONACO,
FRIEND AND CLOSE
ALLY OF LOUIS XIV,
GRAND MONARCH OF FRANCE
ЛУИ I, ДРУГ И СОЮЗНИК ВЕЛИКОГО
ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО КОРОЛЯ ЛЮДОВИКА XIV
WE CONTINUE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE HISTORICAL
CHRONICLE OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO, REVEALING
THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES AND FATE OF THE RULERS
OF THE PRINCIPALITY. IN THE PREVIOUS WINTER ISSUE OF
HELLOMONACO, WE COVERED HONORÉ II, MONACO’S FIRST
RULER FORMALLY TITLED «SOVEREIGN PRINCE».
HIS GRANDSON PRINCE LOUIS I OF MONACO CONTINUED
THE POLITICS OF HONORÉ II AND STRENGTHENED
RELATIONS BETWEEN HIS LITTLE COUNTRY AND ITS
MIGHTY NEIGHBOUR — FRANCE.
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ПРАВИТЕЛЯ МОНАКО С ТИТУЛОМ «СУВЕРЕННОГО
КНЯЗЯ». ДОСТОЙНЫМ НАСЛЕДНИКОМ ПЕРВОГО
МОНАКСКОГО КНЯЗЯ СТАЛ ЕГО ВНУК ЛУИ I,
БЛАГО ДАРЯ КОТОРОМУ МОНАКО ЗНАЧИТЕЛЬНО
УКРЕПИЛО СОЮЗ С МОГУЩЕСТВЕННЫМ СОСЕДОМ —
ФРАНЦИЕЙ.
Prince Louis I of Monaco (1642–1701)
THE SECOND PRINCE OF MONACO
The key figures in the life of Prince Louis I of Monaco
were his grandfather Prince Honoré II, his wife Catherine-Charlotte
de Gramont, and most definitely
the Sun King of France, Louis XIV.
When Louis was born in 1642 to then Hereditary
Prince Hercule (son of Honoré II), King Louis XIV of France had
stood as his godfather and the little prince, also titled Duc de Valentinois,
was named in his honour. Hercule Grimaldi suddenly died
in 1651, so Louis who was just 10 years old became new successor
to Honoré II.
It was Honoré II, the first Prince of Monaco, who had wisely and with
great patience and skill switched liaisons from Spain to France, then
under Louis XIII, expelling the Spanish from the Rock in a precision
military operation in 1641. In the seventeenth century to survive
and thrive as an independent state Monaco had to secure an alliance
with one of the great powers and the choice of France as its
protecting power proved to be strategically pivotal, a decision that
has lasted to this day.
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