The monarchy of divine Droit is a monarchy where the capacity of the king is legitimated by the will of a divinity, who designation is direct or indirect. There exist two types of divine rights:

providential divine right : designation is indirect. She requires the intervention of a clerk, who tends to inspire the capacity and to control it.

supernatural divine right : designation is direct here. The King is then less under the control of the clergy, it more tends to be identified with God. He also tends to develop capacities " magic/surnaturels" (could cure people reached of grave diseases like that of the scrofula…)

Thus with the eyes of the people, " if the king is king, it is that the divinity has it voulu" : therefore, concretely, to be opposed to the king amounts being opposed to the divine will, which legitimates the banishment spiritual (rejection of the community the faithful ones) and temporal (put at the dungeon).

This strategy enables him to be overestimated automatically vis-a-vis the threats of inversion of the other large ones of the kingdom and with the external disorders. It makes it possible to the monarch to legitimate his capacity thanks to the religion. Having to return of account to nobody of other that from God, the sovereign withdraws himself thus from good number of criticisms. That limits it however since the king must obey the divine laws and morals. It must reign for the general interest and its people. He wants to be, indeed, the " père" of its subjects and must thus moderate its authority.

The last remark takes all its direction in the context of the Sling, lived by Louis, future XIV, when he was child.

Development

Louis XIV, the sun king Soleil, wishes to see monarchy radiating starting from a place from where it can control: it will be Versailles. Work begins in 1669 but they are still unfinished when the Court and the government settle in 1682. Several architects of reputation like Louis Vau and François Mansart work there, as well as the gardener Ours.