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Why did King Louis XVI build the palace of Versailles so far away from Paris?

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Why did King Louis XVI build the palace of Versailles so far away from Paris?

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had it built it on the place of his father’s small hunting lodge. It was outside Paris, which was the main reason why he built it there. Louis XIV did not want to be so close to his subjects and wanted to have a palace closeby Paris, but not in it.