Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da farko, jin daɗin Louis game da Daular Ottoman ya zama kamar ba shi da kyau, kuma sojojin Faransa sun taimaka wa Austrians a kan Turks a 1664 Battle of Saint-Gothard
, da Venetians a kan Turks a cikin kewaye da Candia a 1669 a karkashin François de Beaufort. Ɗaya daga cikin dalilan shi ne cewa Louis XIV ya kasance a cikin haɗin gwiwa tare da Habsburgs, musamman ta hanyar aurensa da Marie-Thérèse na Spain a 1660. Mahaifiyar Louis, Anne na Ostiryia, ita ma 'yar Habsburg ce.