Could Modern Doctors Have Saved Louis XIV? Not While Half of Versailles Was Watching Him Get Dressed
The Sun King ruled France for seventy-two years and then lost a leg to a diagnosis nobody wanted to correct VERSAILLES, 1 September 1715 – Louis XIV, the Sun King, who had once declared that the state was himself, died four days before his seventy-seventh birthday. He had reigned for seventy-two years, longer than any monarch in recorded European history, and he went out with his foot black from gangrene…