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Despite the many royal estates he owned, it was in Versailles – where, according to Saint-Simon, there existed only a "small house of cards that Louis XIII had built there to avoid sleeping on straw” – that in 1661 Louis XIV chose to build a château worthy of his prestige. Using the team which had built Vaux-le-Vicomte, the king began the largest construction project which would employ up to 36,000 workers. In 1682, the Sun King and his court officially moved to Versailles. The château would be the residence of the kings of France up until the French Revolution.
