To be truly popular, Louis knew that he had to governin the interest of all his people,and not just the ones he had grown up with.In keeping with the Enlightenment,he's going to be a slightly more modern king.He has ambitions to be a justand a philanthropic monarch.He calls himself Louis le Bienfaisant, Louis the Philanthropic.In fact, one of his first decisions was so modernthat it quite terrified his courtiers.He had his whole family inoculated against smallpox,using a procedure that was experimental and very dangerous.That was something which, you know,raised heads at the time.People thought, "Oh, what will happen if he dies?"And I think, in that way, the king took the lead.He showed that he couldlead with the times and move with the times.And that was a promising start to the reign.
