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The birth of Louis XIV was a surprise in the French court. The king Louis XIII and Anne of Austria were married for 23 years at the time, and the queen couldn't have a surviving children until then. So, WI Anne had kept the same earlier bad luck, and remains unable to give birth a heir to Louis XIII? Assuming he still dies in 1643, how would Gaston, Duke of Orleans fare as king of France?