La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV

Roberto Rossellini's didactic film (TV, 1966).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Roberto
• Rossellini
• Prise
• pouvoir
• Louis
• XIV
• didactic

[gearshift35]

Some say that Louis XIV deliberately crafted such a court life in order to maintain absolute control of the country. He built versailles, and kept the nobility 1)bored to death, and 2) very nearly bankrupt from having all those outfits made...so that they couldn't raise armies against him.

[consrignornt]

@gearshift35 'Some say' is incorrect as it's a fact. some nobles were rich, some were not, a few went bankrupt

[consrignornt]

@SPACETIMEBEAUTY

you are wrong this is versailles not fontainebleau

and the costumes are as correct as they can be

stupid

[consrignornt]

@FRAGIORGIO1 unfortunate for whom ? the people ? very simplistic comment

[Ocendesert]

Does anyone know if the music is Lully or neo-Baroque?

[Ocendesert]

Best scene in this film!

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@lamarchesado Yes, I agree. There were no kings of his height to handle the changes, only the two mediocres (if we can give them that much credit) who followed Louis XIV. If the first phase of the Revolution to convert France into a constitutional monarchy had succeeded --and the extremists avoided-- it would have been marvelous for France. Alas, history proved otherwise with the different radical groups driving the country and its future crazy. Perhaps even Napoleon could have succeeded?

[lamarchesado]

@FRAGIORGIO1 ....Marie Antoinette was against Etiquette, showed her disrespect towards the old nobility and those ones rebelled against their King, encouraging the new ideas of philosophers and the ambitions of middle classes. Same thing happened in Russia with the Table of Ranks created by Peter the Great : though he was followed by some other good monarchs, they didn't changed a system, which became so corrupted and rottened to the Russian Revolution.

[lamarchesado]

@FRAGIORGIO1 : I think the system which created the Sun King was destined to implode. It perfectly served its aim, but it consolidated in the following century in a way that couldn't be changed without causing anger and rebellion among aristocracy which was by then well conscious and eager of all the honor and privileges that such Etiquette bestowed upon her....

[FRAGIORGIO1]

Fascinating study of how Louis XIV broke up the dangerous feudalism of France by concentrating all of the nobility in Versailles and keeping them busy with trivialities to keep them from making trouble throughout the realm. He projected himself as the Sun King (le Roy Soleil) to keep everybody's eyes on him, so it would be easier to keep his eyes on them! Unfortunately he was followed by two very mediocre monarchs who led to the Revolution and turmoil for France.

[se1muscle]

@64LI0479 Charles I was Louis' uncle.