He made her feared abroad and magnificent at home, but he desolated her, and drained her resources with ambitious wars.

He crowned her with imperishable laurels in literature, art, and every manifestation of genius, but he signed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and drove out of his kingdom 500,000 of the best of his subjects.
The marriage of the Dauphin with the Infanta of Spain had occurred before he attained his majority.

It was planned by Mazarin, and was a part of the policy left as a fatal bequest to Louis XIV.

by that minister.
The Salic Law was not recognized in Spain.

Hence, the crown might descend to an heiress, and by her be transmitted to her husband.