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Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project at first, the doctors thought it was sciatica, and then they admitted it was gangrene. The old man suffered greatly those last days, and then, on the 31st of august 1715, the clergy gathered around him, and they began, timidly, to chant the ave maria. All through the night, they carried on chanting. Then, at 8 15 in the morning in the royal bed in the Great Chamber in the center of the palace, louis xiv, the sun king, died, like every man. So wrote a contemporary diarist. Its often said that when louis died, an age died with him. The age of absolute monarchs, the age of which versailles is a symbol, was drawing to an end. Things would never be the same. For louis, versailles was intended first to be a garden, and he imagined that garden as an outdoor palace built next to the one constructed in stone, and the one could not be understood without the other. In the garden, louis exercised the same despotism over nature that he did indoo

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