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The 41 pages that link to Palace of Versailles, each with the reason it gives.

• Louis XIVBroader topic: Its court brought nobles into the king’s orbit and displayed royal power.

• Absolute monarchyBroader topic: Its court rituals drew nobles into the orbit of the king and his administration.

• BaroqueBroader topic: Its architecture and ceremonial interiors show Baroque grandeur deployed for royal authority.

• Baroque architectureBroader topic: Its ceremonial rooms and ordered gardens adapt Baroque grandeur to royal power.

• AbsolutismBroader topic: Its court life made royal presence and hierarchy instruments of political control.

• LouvreCompared with: Versailles preserves royal settings outside Paris, while the Louvre combines palace architecture with extensive art collections.

• Jean-Baptiste LullyRelated: Its spectacles and ceremonies provided a central setting for Lully’s court music.

• Forbidden CityCompared with: Its European court culture offers a comparison with the Forbidden City's distinct imperial order.

• Marie AntoinetteRelated: Its court became the setting for Marie Antoinette’s queenship and public reputation.

• Capital cityBroader topic: Its court drew political authority away from Paris while demonstrating the power of a royal seat.

• French National AssemblyRelated: The Assembly operated from Versailles while the Commune controlled Paris.

• Charles Le BrunNarrower topic: Le Brun’s decoration helped make the palace a unified display of royal authority.

• Anne of AustriaRelated: The court Anne helped preserve under a minor king later became the center of her son’s monarchy.

• CourtierBroader topic: Versailles exemplified a court where nobles were drawn into the monarch’s orbit.

• Royal patronageBroader topic: Louis XIV’s palace concentrated court life and displayed the political uses of royal magnificence.

• French Baroque architectureBroader topic: Its scale and ceremonial planning became the most influential expression of French royal Baroque architecture.

• MinuetRelated: Its court provided a prominent setting for the minuet’s social performance.

• Nicolas FouquetCompared with: Versailles surpassed the private splendor of Vaux-le-Vicomte as a royal project.

• Palace of WestminsterCompared with: Unlike Westminster’s parliamentary role, Versailles is chiefly associated with royal residence and court power.

• The FrondeRelated: The court’s relocation helped keep powerful nobles close to the king and away from Parisian politics.

• Frederick William I of PrussiaCompared with: Its splendor contrasts with Frederick William’s austere court and rejection of costly display.

• French Classical LiteratureRelated: Its court society supplied writers with patrons, audiences, and subjects.

• Jules Hardouin-MansartRelated: Its major late-seventeenth-century expansions became Hardouin-Mansart’s defining commissions.

• Women's March on VersaillesBroader topic: The crowd converged on the palace, where violence and negotiations unfolded.

• French BaroqueBroader topic: Its architecture and decoration made royal magnificence a defining public spectacle.

• Madame de SévignéRelated: Her reports capture the court’s rituals, rivalries, and social spectacle.

• Bourbon dynastyRelated: Its court embodied the dynasty’s concentration of aristocratic life around the king.

• Hall of MirrorsNarrower topic: The gallery forms part of the palace’s central state apartments.

• Madame du BarryNarrower topic: Du Barry’s status depended on access to the king’s court at Versailles.

• Tennis Court OathRelated: The deputies assembled there after finding their usual meeting hall closed.

• François MansartRelated: Its later architectural grandeur contrasts with Mansart’s earlier, more restrained classical manner.

• French architectureBroader topic: Its architecture turned royal power into an ordered, monumental landscape.

• Louis Le VauRelated: Le Vau enlarged the earlier palace and designed its major garden-facing extensions.

• The Coronation of NapoleonRelated: The monumental canvas is displayed in Versailles’s Galerie des Glaces.

• André-Charles BoulleRelated: Royal commissions and court interiors formed an important setting for Boulle’s work.

• Jean de La BruyèreBroader topic: The court culture associated with Versailles illuminates his portraits of rank and ambition.

• Madame de MontespanRelated: The court's move to Versailles gave Montespan's royal relationship its political setting.

• Anne GolonRelated: Research into this royal world helped ground the Angélique novels’ setting.

• CurtsyBroader topic: Versailles became a prominent setting for the courtly customs associated with curtsying.

• France in the early modern periodBroader topic: Its court drew nobles into royal service and made political life orbit the monarch.

• History of architectureBroader topic: Its formal planning and monumental rooms made architecture an instrument of royal authority.