France, 1667. A year after the death of his mother, Louis XIV, age 28, already holds the reins of power alone. Traumatized by the Fronde which saw the nobles to rebel against his father, Louis XIII, and the target of several plots, he seeks to establish his authority. Then germ in him the idea of establishing the seat of power outside Paris. He decides to install in Versailles which is then only a hunting lodge where he likes to receive his court. He began to transform Versailles … as a trap. His goal away the nobles of Paris, keep them under its control and gradually make the castle a gilded prison. The sumptuous palace will satisfy, in passing, his dreams of grandeur.
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