Louis XIV Begins Versailles Expansion
1672
The Sun King ordered the rebuilding of his father's modest hunting lodge at Versailles into the greatest palace in Europe. Architects, gardeners, and five thousand workmen began twenty years of labor. The court would move there in 1682, and absolute monarchy acquired a ceremonial stage to match its pretensions, a theater of power that every European prince rushed to imitate.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.