What was the purpose of Louis XIV's expansion and professionalization of the French military?
A) To keep domestic peace in the wake of new religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics
B) To expand France's overseas empire, specifically in North America and the Caribbean
C) To pursue the conquest of the Holy Land and retake Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire
D) To expand French power in Europe and increase France's territorial holdings on the continent
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