Articles related to "Building Versailles"

Keeping his nobles busy with concerts, hunting, and other diversions was not Louis' only motive for the construction of a French symbol of Absolute Monarchy.

Louis XIV began the Palace of Versialles in 1669. Upon completion, Versailles was the largest royal residence in Europe. Thousands of laborers worked on Versailles.

Louis XIV built the Palace of Versailles to keep his nobles and government officals under his control. Versailles became a symbol of absolutism throughout Europe.