Louis XIV’s Obsession With the Palace of Versailles I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Versailles, 1649. A simple hunting lodge on the top of a windswept hill surrounded by forests and stinking marshland… This is the landscape where a child known as the “Rising Sun” used to come hunting with his father, Louis XIII.

Half a century later, it has become the most splendid royal palace in Europe, standing in the middle of gardens that provide a foretaste of heaven on earth. And in this gilded prison live the nobility, who are now entirely under Louis XIV’s control.

Documentary: The Rise of Fall of Versailles - EP1: Louis XIV, The Dream of a King
Directed by: Thierry Binisti
Production: Les Films d'Ici

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