# Louis XIV — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman character guide

> Louis XIV in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Louis XIV

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Who they are

French king cited as an example of arbitrary power.

## In the story

### [Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_vindication_of_the_rights_of_woman_se/chapters/iv)

Cited as an example of a ruler who governed through arts and manners rather than virtue or intellect.

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