Why would louis xiv construct this elaborate palace

Louis XIV wanted to show that France could produce mirrors just as fine as those produced in Italy, and consequently, all the mirrors of that hall were made on French soil." ... Scholars have suggested a number of factors that led him to build a great palace complex at Versailles and move the French government there.

Building such a lavish complex was an important part of Louis XIV's style of rule and beliefs about monarchy, which we would call absolutism, said Schmidt. "As king of France he was the embodiment of France — and his palace was meant to display the wealth and power of his nation,"

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