A Different Basis of Power?

i wonder if this has a lot to do with ther ter their financial situation at this time too, because one of the great cops of the sun king is that he's basically taking the historically very independent, very fiercely militantly independent french aristocracy. And from there, he's able to basically centralize power. One of the mechanisms that ends up happening here, and i think it will say in russia too around the same time, is out of much of the a conspicuous consumption that the aristocracy does to participate in court life racks them up a lot of debt. So they're basically subsisting offof money that is common, that everyone understands will never be repaid when a e taken from te