Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Sarautarsa ta fara ne a lokacin Yaƙin Shekaru talatin da kuma lokacin yaƙin Franco-Spanish. Ma'aikacinsa na soja, Vauban, ya zama sananne ga sansanoninsa na pentagonal, kuma Jean-Baptiste Colbert ya goyi bayan kashe kuɗin sarauta kamar yadda ya yiwu. Faransa ta mamaye kungiyar Rhine ta yi yaƙi da Ottoman Turks a yakin Saint Gotthard
a shekara ta 1664. Kiristoci ne suka ci yaƙin, musamman ta hanyar jaruntakar sojojin Faransa 6,000 da La Feuillade da Coligny suka jagoranta.