sentences:  At the onset of the Thirty Years' War there were 30 families with some 150 inhabitants.For a while, nobody was left in Breitenbach, but by 1663, there were once again eight households, with only a slight rise in population by 1675.As a result of the re-population policies during the French occupation during King Louis XIV's wars of conquest, there was a sharp rise in population in the late 17th century, in which within only a few decades, the number of inhabitants rose sixfold.