1. Bellringer
1. Describe your dream house.
(what color, how many rooms, special things,
what city?, what part of the city?, etc)

2. Sultan of Brunei
• 7000+
cars!

3. Absolutism
How would “Divine Right” give monarchs
absolute control?
Examples from
our society?

4. King Louis XIV (14th • France )
• 1638-1715
• “Sun King”
• Catholic
• “I am the State”

5. King Louis XIV
In 1664, the King wanted to
show that his country was
the greatest country in
Europe, but he was also
concerned that many of his
“friends” in his Paris palace
were conspiring against him.
He needed to build a new
palace, where should he
build it and what should he
put in it? (no cars, tv or computers yet)

7. Palace of Versailles

8. Palace of Versailles

9. Versailles

10. Versailles
• $2billion to build
• 36,000 construction
workers
• 6,000 horses lived
there
• 2,000 rooms
• 1,400 fountains
• 15,000 acres of
gardens
• Video clip
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/homepage

11. ½ sheet
1. 3 ways King Louis XIV’s house is different
from your house
2. 3 ways you could incorporate the architecture
Palace of Versailles into your future house
3. What is more important to you, having a house
with many rooms, or better items in your
house? explain