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Louis XIV
1715 - Versailles
Ritual, bodily decline, and the separation of image from control.
Feeling control leave his body at Versailles, the Sun King writes what absolute power actually felt like from the inside.
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France and Low Countries
Louis XIV dies at Versailles and the Regency begins
1 September 1715 · Versailles, France
Versailles turns personal monarchy into managed succession, forcing France to discover how absolute rule survives the body that embodied it.
Louis XIV keeps the event human because an entire model of monarchy contracts here into one deathbed and one succession problem.
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Louis XIV
1715 - Versailles
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Ritual, bodily decline, and the separation of image from control.
Feeling control leave his body at Versailles, the Sun King writes what absolute power actually felt like from the inside.