text: Nonetheless, Louis has also received praise. The anti-Bourbon Napoleon described him not only as "a great king", but also as "the 
  only King of France worthy of the name".[137] Leibniz, the German Protestant philosopher, commended him as "one of the 
  greatest kings that ever was".[138] And Lord Acton admired him as "by far the ablest man who was born in modern times on the 
  steps of a throne".[139] The historian and philosopher Voltaire wrote: "His name can never be pronounced without respect and 
  without summoning the image of an eternally memorable age".[140] Voltaire's history,*The Age of Louis XIV*, named Louis's reign 
  as not only one of the four great ages in which reason and culture flourished, but the greatest ever.[141][142] 