HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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What was the main political reason King Louis XIV built a palace in Versailles?
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Because it was the perfect area for his favorite hobby-hunting
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To keep an eye on the nobles
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Because it was attached to a church
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To make sure he was accessible to the peasant population
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -By moving his court and government to Versailles, Louis XIV hoped to extract more control of the government from the nobility and to distance himself from the population of Paris.
Detailed explanation-2: -As indicated in Versailles: Landscape of Power & Pleasure, “Louis XIV had conceived Versailles as a means of keeping the high nobility unified, delocalised, under his surveillance, in his debt – and happy” (Jones 2018, p. 124).
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