Editing Louis XIV (section)

===Quotes===
Numerous quotes have been attributed to Louis{{Nbsp}}XIV by legend.

The well-known "I am the state" (''"[[L'État, c'est moi]]."'') was reported from at least the late 18th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Erhard |first=C. D. |title=Betrachtungen über Leopolds des Weisen Gesetzgebung in Toscana |publisher=Richter |date=1791 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=q5hDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA30 30] |language=de |trans-title=Reflections on Leopold's Wise Legislation in Toscana}}</ref> It was widely repeated but also denounced as [[apocryphal]] by the early 19th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marignié |first=Jean Etienne François |title=Le roi ne peut jamais avoir tort, le roi ne peut mal faire |date=1818 |publisher=Le Normant |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=P6gnAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 12] |language=fr |trans-title=The king was not wrong, the king can do no wrong}}</ref>{{Efn|The anecdote as circulated after the [[French Revolution]], designed to illustrate the tyrannical character of the [[Absolute monarchy in France|absolutism]] of the ''[[Ancien Régime]]'', held that the president of the ''[[Parlement of Paris|parlement]]'' began to address the king with the words ''Sire, l'État [...]'' but was cut off by the king interjecting ''L'État, c'est moi''.}}<ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 1817 |title=Staatswissenschaften |journal=Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung |language=de |volume=14.1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fQwbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA241 241] |number=31}}</ref>

He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."{{Sfn|Blanning|2008|p=286}}{{Sfn|Wilson|2000|p=54}} Louis is recorded by numerous eyewitnesses as having said on his deathbed: "{{Lang|fr|Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours.}}" ("I depart, but the State shall always remain."){{Sfn|Marquis de Dangeau|1858|p=[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55404p.image.r=M%C3%A9moire+sur+la+mort+de+Louis+XIV.f27.langFR 24]}}