 Complete the following phrase:  In 1672 Louis XIV appointed him as his ambassador to the Republic of Venice. From the 15th to the 18th century Venice repeatedly clashed with the Ottoman Empire in seven Ottoman-Venetian Wars, but his embassy fell into a period of peace between the end of the Cretan War 1669 and the beginning of the Morean War 1684. The French had intervened in the Cretan War during the 