Louis XIV feared the nobility.
To avoid possible catastrophic effects caused by the riots of people vote for a strategic need to move the seat of government, then rented the palace of the Louvre, outside Paris. Start building the palace of Versailles.
To weaken the economic strength (and therefore military) of the French nobility, Louis XIV makes mandatory court life. In this way it can control the noble organizing parties several times a week and causes them to spend. In order not to disfigure the presence of the King because they had to buy new clothes for every occasion.
Louis XIV also decreases the power of ministers, riassegnadogli those primary. (Minister = servant). Thus there is a break with the past (Mazarin, Richelieu). The Minister must not serve the king
is chosen according to the family of origin but a meritocracy, his ability nonhardly fails or the King suspected his deception, is replaced. He did not provide guarantees or privileges for life.
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