1. How to look like an Absolute Monarch 1. build a HUGE palace !

2. Palace of Versailles built by Louis XIV of France Construction began 1668.

3. Statue of Louis XIV in the palace of Versailles.

4. Inside Versailles – the Hall of Mirrors

5. Salon of Mars

6. The “back gardens” of Versailles

7. Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, begun by Leopold I in 1696

8. Inside the Schonbrunn Palace

9. Schonbrunn’s side garden

10. Schunbrunn’s “Tea Garden”

11. Sans Souci in Potsdam. Built by Frederick the Great of Prussia.

12. Sans Souci Built 1740s.

13. Frederick the Great

14. St. Petersburg started 1712

15. Peter the Great city of St. Petersburg The Winter Palace

16. Peterhof aka Petrodvorets