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Louis XIV
1715 - Versailles
Ritual, bodily decline, and the separation of image from control.
Feeling control leave his body at Versailles, the Sun King writes what absolute power actually felt like from the inside.
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Peter the Great and the making of Saint Petersburg
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Louis XIV
1715 - Versailles
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Ritual, bodily decline, and the separation of image from control.
Feeling control leave his body at Versailles, the Sun King writes what absolute power actually felt like from the inside.