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In 1–2 sentences, explain how Louis XIV created the illusion of absolute control and why that illusion might still have power today.

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Louis XIV created the illusion of absolute control by concentrating the nobility and government at Versailles and staging elaborate rituals, art, and bureaucratic routines that made royal authority appear omnipresent and indispensable. That illusion still works today because spectacle, media management, and institutional design can manufacture legitimacy and hide real limits on leaders, making centralized power seem natural and unchallengeable.