More ways of disposing of re-investible resources and strengthening power at the same time:
- Thousands of grown trees are uprooted and replanted in the Versailles park:
- Ten thousand tulips are brought from Holland and planted at night, to surprise courtiers when they wake.
Gone from the web.
- Priceless silks: Before Versailles, they were carried from chateau to chateau as the kings moved. But after king settles there, they are renewed twice a year.
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Versailles's association with the Sun King has encouraged modern Heads of State to stud Paris with monuments in their memory:
Museum web site
Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.
But they don't cost
two billion euros* for construction,
not counting upkeep, decor and changes.
Yet Louis has other palaces.
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