If there were Facebook and Weibo in the 17th century, Louis XIV must have been a self-media blogger by profession.
Louis XIV has been dead for three centuries, but Versailles repeats the same scene every day in his lifetime. Every day at 10 a.m. in Versailles, tourists from all over the world, like the great aristocrats who had crowded around him before, lined up in a serpentine queue on the square in front of the Palace of Versailles.
Although the sculpture of Louis XIV is erected in the Pyramid Square of the Louvre Museum in Paris, it seems to be shouting "I am the country!!" all the time, but everyone knows that the Louvre Museum is only a moment for him. Always reminding him of the pain in his life. His stage belongs to Versailles, or Versailles belongs to him.
The life of Louis XIV is somewhat different from that of most of the kings we know well. Some of his and Kangxi's life experiences are subtly similar. When he was a child, he became a senior → wretched development → kills the power → creates an era , and even waits for time. The details are very similar, not to mention that the two of them exchanged personal letters, and even sent cinchona cream from thousands of miles to cure Kangxi's malaria.
Counting down the glorious moments of Louis XIV's life, it is most appropriate to describe it as "gorgeous anti-kill", but his story is simply a living chicken soup. It's so inspiring to be able to turn a Han Xiandi opening into a dynasty mode.
Another interesting point is that you will find that the melons you touch along the vine of Louis XIV are all items that you spend higher in real life. And it is not only a high expenditure item, you will find that the topics that are more trendy today were not a problem at that time. To give a few examples:
LGBT
Louis XIV should be the first king in Western society to openly deal with the LGBT community, and his younger brother Louis Philippe is an openly gay man. A childhood love of cross-dressing, a young Sleeping Knight, even this did not delay his own royal duties. The founder of the Orleans family is the ancestor of the Roman Catholic royal family, nicknamed "the grandfather of Europe". A gay, through two marriages, slept with a bloodline, what kind of spirit is this!
If you think he is a weakling, then you are wrong. Not only can this prince give strong support to Louis XIV in cultural affairs, but he has formulated a series of rules and regulations that highlight the emperor's class, as large as the emperor's VI design. As small as how to place the knives and forks on the dining table, these king brothers are all within their grasp, and even creative planning such as "nobles watching the emperor get up in the morning" can be carried out to the implementation of activities. It can be said that "Wen Neng can use the pen to control the loli, Wu Neng can set a wife on the bed, he can bully his body and oppress the wife, and retreat can lift his hips to welcome the public." I want one of such a beast-level partner!
And Louis XIV's feelings for his younger brother can also be said to be quite complicated. In other words, he was also an entrepreneurial partner who had been marginalized and poor together. He was the only one who could sit on the throne. The 28-year-old Louis, in fact, He is a CEO who has just completed the A round. He also feels Alexander when he encounters so many talented COOs. From the initial control and suppression, to the later recognition and understanding, to the later people making the best use of their abilities, dredging and understanding. The CEO really went through a lot of mental journey. And the attitude towards LGBT also changed from disgust (prohibition) → acquiescence (numbness) → understanding (letting go). It has to be said that the king's attitude towards HOMO is much more modern than that of the adjacent corrupt country (a moment of silence for Turing).
Gongdou
The drama of Gongdou is never out of date. After all, Gongdoufang at that time is now a drama in the workplace. The concept of "I sleep with you not only for sleep but also for intelligence" like Louis XIV is the ancestor of the 007 series. It's okay to be a sleeping mistress, and even his brother's wife is drunk.
If the relationship between sleep and politics was limited to the relationship between the royal family and in-laws, then Louis XIV took this technique to reduce the dimension and put it directly on the dimension of the nobility. This method was used to maintain the balance of the relationship and obtain information. It's an innovation. Not to mention his clever use of mistresses to balance him with the Spanish royal blood princess, compared to Henry VIII, the king who "I have the right to sleep whoever I want, and change the state religion for the sleeping girl" , which shows the difference between the city and the ambition.
self-media
Looking at Louis XIV from the current point of view, he should be the founder of We Media. In the process of starting a business, he clearly knew the development direction of his "royal Internet celebrity", and in the process he not only showed his own Astonishing talent (aesthetics), he has also discovered the monetization channels (traffic → users → operations → conversion → realization) that most contemporary Internet celebrities have not found. It can be said to be a model of contemporary self-media.
The innate seed users brought by the royal halo drive new users, and the palace activities are used as a means of user operation and maintenance to lay the consumption level and foundation, and eventually the traffic will be realized into political and economic interests. This closed-loop model is impeccable. But as an investor, it was difficult to objectively evaluate the startup company of Louis XIV in that era.
First of all, the circumstances of his childhood and his mother’s daughter are a shortcoming. There is no trust foundation for the high-end consumer group of the aristocracy, nor the foundation of trust for the emerging consumer group of the bourgeoisie. The seed round was voted by Louis XIII, but it was only left. After the throne and the nobles scattered all over the country, the money is almost spent, and there are still some external debts.
The terrifying founder also had a superficial marriage with a company like Spain, a giant in the age of navigation. The partner, the Spanish princess, did not focus on business, but also gave birth to a black illegitimate daughter, and the relationship between the surrounding business partners, the Netherlands, was tense. The founder seems to have slapped his head and drew a blueprint and ran to the investor to tell his market prospects. If you are an investor, I am afraid that you will not have much positive response to this Versailles plan. Not to mention that this will be a unicorn company whose reach is measured in the world and its staying power is measured in centuries.
If you look at France as a company, Louis XIV's influence has a depth and breadth of influence that only later CEO Napoleon can match. Because Louis XIV understood from the very beginning of his business, that is to tell users two things, the first is "what is beauty", and the second is "how to look like a thing".
Therefore, France has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the western world; the table manners circulating in the market are all French, and even the nouns of high-end dining in the world are French; art and living like art are "French" by real estate developers, The real meaning of small bakery owners and Taobao owners before abuse; any brand can sell for a lot of money as long as Paris is marked under the trademark to add a halo; even anti-dandruff shampoo advertisements, even if the spokesperson is funny, just say the R&D center sells well in France.
It can be said that Louis XIV gave France an independent IP in the 18th century that could extend the realization period indefinitely.
From the beginning of a Han Xiandi to a unicorn, as an entrepreneurial dog who used to work 16 hours a day, everyone is working in bed, I really have nothing to say. Therefore, watching the French drama "Versailles" can only be regarded as learning.
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