The correct answer is B) the divine authority if king Louis XIV
The French bishop is referring to in this passage to "the divine authority if king Louis XIV."
This were the words of Bishop Jaques Bousset in "Politics Draw From the Very Words of Scripture." (1679). With this declaration, the Bishop is supporting the absolutist government of monarch Louis XIV. Although the clergy supported the king to maintain its political and economic interests, French people were tired of tyranny. Disorders started and French people started an uprising called the Fronde, where peasants, merchants, the poor, and nobles protested against the monarchy.
