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Greatest Challenge
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XIV’s greatest challenge and greatest success, in his role of being an absolutist, was in controlling the aristocracy. Louis replaced the roles of the nobility with his own bureaucrats and no monarch has ever held as much power or authority as Louis XIV.
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Palace
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about ten miles outside Paris, Louis built an extremely lavish palace that becomes his main residence and the center of the court that surrounded him.
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Court life
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, court life centered entirely around Louis
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Formal Routine
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• Louis’s formal routine in receiving visitors created appropriate distance between him and his courtiers while keeping his subjects in a state of subservient anticipation of royal favor. His frequent bursts of anger achieved the same affect.
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