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France's Sun King, Louis XIV personified monarchical absolutism by divine right, centralizing power, subjecting the nobility to the court of Versailles, and expanding the cultural and military prestige of the French kingdom.
Political topics
Louis XIV leans further toward autocracy than 99% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Louis XIV stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Louis XIV sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that arose in 1930s Brazil, Christian and corporatist, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family, a mass aesthetic and opposition to liberalism and communism.
The most distant ideology
Techno-AnarchismAnarchist26%
Roman emperor from 306 to 337, Constantine reunified the Empire, granted freedom to Christians in the Edict of Milan (313), convened the Council of Nicaea (325), founded Constantinople and reorganized the state with a mobile army and fiscal reforms.
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Founded by the Habsburgs in 1804, the Austrian Empire was a multinational Central European monarchy until the Compromise of 1867. Under Francis I and Metternich, it combined centralized administration, Catholic primacy, and liberal repression.
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