# At war with the French: Louis XIV and Napoleon

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Kathleen Burk
- Year: 2005
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/war-french-louis-xiv-and-napoleon)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Both Louis XIV in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and Napoleon in the nineteenth made France the most powerful country on the Continent. Indeed, Napoleon can be considered the first man since Charlemagne in the ninth century to have unified Europe. In both cases, Britain played an important role in France's defeat.

## Lectures

1. [At war with the French: Louis XIV and Napoleon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/war-french-louis-xiv-and-napoleon/0ca2105f2183) (YouTube)