Absolutism is one great power coming directly from the monarch. King Louis XIV use absolutism in his monarchy. He used absolutism to control his dynasty. The Age of absolutism started from 1648- 1789. The monarchy called Absolute Monarchy, which is a direct personal rule of the monarch without a veto of power. Nobody but him makes the “big decisions”.Being king is a divine absolute, you are king because God wants you to be. He created the rules of his dynasty to keep the order of the masses.The rules in Versailles are like scriptures to a bible to his scriptures. People obeyed his rule because he was very convincing and everyone loved him. He was the great sun king. Everyone was too busy following his crazy rules to disobey him.If you did not …show more content…
If you don’t have a sword, you can rent one at the gate. In that time men of wealth were looked as knights. If you didn't have one they provided one at the gate. This is still done to this day, as versailles has be turned into a museum. Thus, in the presence of a king or queen, dukes and duchesses may sit on a stool.We talked about this briefly in lecture. People in that era thought of the king as a god. Even if you were a part of the royal family, you still could not be higher than the king. Louis XIV wanted to have absolute power and wanted to deter anyone who thought of overthrowing him. Also, everyone else must stand until king or queen leaves. We demonstrated this in class as well, we could not sit down to the king told us to. Exhibiting the power that King Louis had on his subjects. Finally, in the presence of the king or queen, the king’s siblings and children may sit in chairs without arms. We mentioned that in class as well a brother of the king cannot have the chair without arms because in Louis mind it was a power situation. He wanted his subjects to know that he and his wife at the time would be the only ones with enough power to have chairs with