WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -King Louis XIV (1643–1715) of France furnished the most familiar assertion of absolutism when he said, “L’état, c’est moi” (“I am the state”).

Detailed explanation-2: -“L’etat, c’est moi, ‘’ “I am the state, ‘’ said King Louis XIV of France. Louis believed that he was the only one responsible for governing France when he ruled from 1643 to 1715.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which quotation was MOST LIKELY made by an absolute monarch? “Power comes from the people."

Detailed explanation-4: -Absolute monarchies include Brunei, Eswatini, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, and the individual emirates composing the United Arab Emirates, which itself is a federation of such monarchies – a federal monarchy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Age of Absolutism is usually thought to begin with the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715) and ends with the French Revolution (1789). Absolutism was primarily motivated by the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Detailed explanation-6: -In an absolutist state, monarchs often required nobles to live in the royal palace, while state officials ruled the noble lands in their absence. This was designed to reduce the effective power of the nobility by causing nobles to become reliant upon the largesses of the monarch for their livelihoods.