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Louis XI (1423-83). King of France from 1461 to 1483. Louis XI reduced the feudal lords and made the central power paramount. He also encouraging manufacturing, commerce, and mining; improved the public roads and canals, and aided in establishing printing presses.
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 78. (Meeting of Louis XI. and Charles the Bold in Peronne, drawn by A. de Neuville.)
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