Known simply as Monsieur, the king’s younger brother Philippe (1640–1701) played no political role, but he did win a few military battles. While openly homosexual, he also married twice and fathered several children, including Philippe II, who became regent after the death of Louis XIV. Throughout his life, Monsieur enlarged and embellished his residence at Saint-Cloud, just west of Paris. (The palace burned down in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War.)