쉐도잉 연습: The Final Days of Louis XIV - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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The King opens his eyes and the world rushes to serve.
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Dozens of hands move in perfect rhythm, layering him like a cake.
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Scented cloths are rubbed, gold-laced silk wrapped and lace cuffs fastened.
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Then velvet drops and curls are locked onto the towering wig.
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Finally, the red-heeled shoes are slid on as the sweet and heavy perfume settles.
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The bedroom fills with hundreds more people, all eyes drawn to his burning presence: Louis XIV, the Sun King, the OG of absolute rulers.
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His existence is scripted without intermission.
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A calendar and a watch are all it takes to know his every move throughout the day.
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Louis XIV wields power over millions.
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But he is trapped by his own supremacy.
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A force that will tear his body apart and torture him with unimaginable pain.
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The Theater of Absolute Power It’s 1682 and the king has finally moved into Versailles, his permanent home.
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More than twenty years in the making, this extension was among Louis’ first royal projects.
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It’s still unfinished but it already outshines every royal estate, past and future.
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Its grounds could fit more than 40,000 tennis courts.
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And it isn’t just a palace but a trap wrapped in gold.
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Beyond the royal family and servants, some 5,000 nobles from every corner of France live here.
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Far from home, they have no power and that only makes Louis stronger.
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In return, he gives them glittering titles, tax breaks and the illusion that they matter.
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Nearly one-fifth of the nation’s government spendings flows into Versailles to keep the king’s friends close and enemies closer.
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He starts the day with a breakfast and a bowel movement.
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Doctors inspect the royal poop while he heads to mass.
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Drums and fifes mark his entrance as the choir starts to sing.
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The music changes daily, a personal playlist composed just for him.
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God may reside in heaven, but here, Louis is His lieutenant.
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And duty calls.
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By eleven, he is back in his quarters, buried in letters, finance and strategy with his ministers.
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The kingdom flows through his hands.
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The Sun King knows the status of every fortress and troop - and not just because he has to.
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He loves war, it’s his favorite kind of glory.
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The goal is unapologetic: French territory everywhere with his colonies stretching across the globe.
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Just like Kangxi, the Quing emperor, Louis is obsessed with grandeur.
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Yesterday, a ship of Chinese porcelain arrived, so he sends back a cannon.
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The afternoon continues with more diplomacy.
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Siamese envoys who've travelled for two years, finally show up.
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Their jaws drop as the king greets them draped in a coat completely encrusted in diamonds.
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He showers them with gifts worth around 2 million dollars today, a small price for the publicity this spectacle will bring.
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All that work has Louis starving.
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His orchestra performs as hundreds of eyes track each bite of his royal mukbang.
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He couldn’t care less about cutlery and loves devouring food with his bare hands.
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And his appetite is perfectly matched by tonight’s obscene menu.
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Soups and pigeons in gold-crusted pies.
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Towers of chicken fricassées, partridges, tarts drenched in syrup.
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The smell of perfume, candle wax, butter and wine give the palace a heady aroma.
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But the real intoxication is not food.
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It's extravaganza.
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Tonight, 24,000 candles set the gardens ablaze.
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Rockets trace the king’s initials in fire across the sky.
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Courtiers brag about partying through the night and sleeping through the day for weeks, lost in powdered wigs and champagne laughter.
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Louis’ ego thrives on this indulgent chaos.
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But outside all the glitter and glam, the world looks quite different.
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Beyond the Golden Walls Beyond Versailles, Europe is a giant strategy game of paranoid kings.
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France, the most populous kingdom, is leveling up fast.
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This is freaking out Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, England, and the Dutch, who all team up to stop Louis XIV from eating the map.
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His ambition is to expand his realm to the natural borders of France: the Rhine, the Alps, the Pyrenees.
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He commissions over a hundred star-shaped fortresses and strengthens the old ones, wrapping France in defenses with 400,000 soldiers and 13,000 cannons standing ready.
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Louis delights in joining his army on the battlefield: during his 72-year reign he will engage in five major wars, both on land and at sea.
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Genoa, one of the wealthiest ports in Italy, becomes the first European city to face the terror of his bomb ketches’ explosive shells.
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A ten day bombardment destroys half of the city.
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The message is clear: resist French annexation and fire will rain from the sky.
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Each conflict reshapes the map of Europe absorbing Belgium, Lorraine, Alsace, Strasbourg into France.
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The price of glory is brutal.
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Even when the cannons fall silent, the army eats more than half the kingdom’s money.
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In wartime, the treasury bleeds dry and peasants are squeezed with taxes until their pockets are empty.
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The people grow angry, riots erupt and the King answers with military crackdowns.
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To bolster his image, he funds newspapers that inflate his victories and downplay domestic problems.
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He orders the construction of hospitals in Paris to care for wounded soldiers and the poor who crowd the streets.
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But the hospitals are filthy, designed less to heal than to confine.
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Instead of curing, 17th century medicine is mostly just lessons in bearing pain.
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And the Sun King will face that himself.
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His glory doesn’t just demand tribute from his people.
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It’s about to turn on him as well.
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The Body Becomes a Battleground Before we close in on the Sunking, let’s zoom out for a moment.
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And now back to the Sun King!
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On the outside, he looks unstoppable, fighting, hunting, dancing, every day.
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It's glamorous and absolutely exhausting.
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But he knows that weakness is dangerous and the court can never see him crack.
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So he hides sleepless nights and smiles through fevers and joint pains.
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As he nears fifty, his body slows and stiffens.
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Decades of gluttony and extravagance begin to take their toll: his frame grows rounder and he’s increasingly suffering from toothaches.
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With no anesthesia and only the dentist holding his head still, the teeth are wrenched and pulled.
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One of the roots snaps and Louis can hear the bone crack as his mouth fills with blood.
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At night he tries to dull the pain with wine but as he chugs, it shoots up through his nostrils.
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The dental work has opened a tunnel from the King’s upper jaw to his nose.
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In a few days his mouth starts tasting of rot, his breath reeks and people flinch when he speaks.
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The doctors try to burn this hole shut, leaving Louis unable to eat for days.
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And this nightmare was just a dress rehearsal for the century’s most infamous surgery.
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Months later, he develops a truly royal agony: a swollen lump near his anus.
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The doctors try piercing it, burning it, injecting mysterious potions.
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Nothing works and soon an open sore develops.
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The last option is surgery.
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The problem is that his chief surgeon has never performed anything like this before.
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Surgery, at this time, is just glorified butchery, amputations and haircuts both done by barbers.
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So the surgeon needs guinea pigs.
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He practices on condemned prisoners, perfecting both his courage and his cuts.
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Finally, it's the Sun King’s turn: As the blade slices into the infected flesh, the King clasps the hand of his war minister and whispers “Mon Dieu” only twice.
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Three hours later, it's over.
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And though the operation was done in secret, a new fashion sweeps the court: Bandages wrapped around everyone’s buttocks.
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Louis smiles but he knows deep down: he survived not thanks to his doctors, but despite them.
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The Age of Gory The 17th century is Europe’s medical twilight zone and probably the worst time to get sick.
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Doctors will blame everything on your blood.
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So for a thousand years, the go-to cure has been to cut a vein and let the sickness flow out.
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Bleed between the eyebrows for headaches, cut under the tongue for a sore throat and if a woman’s periods are irregular, well, better get out the knife again.
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By the mid-1600s, blood circulation is discovered and the invention of the microscope unveils a hidden universe of microorganisms, pulling medicine out of the dark ages.
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But this progress doesn’t help sick people much.
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Doctors still use ancient treatments that can kill you faster than smallpox.
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Ironically, no one suffers more from outdated medicine than the most powerful man in the kingdom.
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By the turn of the century, the Sun King is in his early sixties, a miraculous age most people never make it to.
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He launches his longest and most expensive war for the Spanish throne but gout, arthritis and rheumatism keep him off the battlefield.
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Now, his main enemy is himself.
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The doctors do their usual bleedings and colonic cleanses but nothing helps.
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With all his teeth gone, royal feasts are just a memory.
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All he wants now is to secure his dynasty but a wave of measles tears through the royal family, killing his son, his grandson and almost every other heir to his throne.
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They all receive the same treatment of bloodletting and laxatives.
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Still, death claims everyone around Louis.
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He is somehow spared – but not forever.
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The Final Performance It begins with a chill running through his bones on a summer day when everyone else complains about the heat.
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With a sharp pain in his left leg, a black spot begins to bloom on the skin.
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It’s gangrene, his flesh starving for blood.
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The rot crawls upward, his flesh consuming itself and turning black.
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The sickly stench overpowers the incense in his bedroom.
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The blood the doctors draw is thick and dark.
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Even donkey milk, praised for its healing powers, doesn’t help.
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The nights drag on and nothing quenches his terrible thirst.
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He tries to keep working but ministers can see death in his eyes.
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He faces it the way he faced everything else, as theater.
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He summons his five-year-old great-grandson, the future Louis XV and tells him: "Try to remain at peace with your neighbours.
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I loved war too much. Do not follow me in that." Over the next few days, he says farewells to ministers, courtiers and princes.
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“I am leaving but the State will always remain.” he says before he goes out like a candle.
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The Afterglow The last few decades of Louis XIV life were a complete medical nightmare, but still: for 72 years, longer than any other ruler, he embodied the idea that one man could be the state.
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But the system he built was too costly and way too dependent on one megalomaniac trapped in a body with limits.
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Once reliable like clockwork and the source of his power, his robust physique started to fail.
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While he endured the brutal medical treatments of the time, the perfect image he demanded of himself began to fall apart until the Sun king was only a suffering toothless man.
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But the dream of Versailles refuses to end.
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Frederick the Great of Prussia and Ludwig II of Bavaria went full fanboys, building their own glittering replicas of this fantasy.
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Even today, some leaders chase that same mix of ambition and ego, surrounding themselves with gold and spectacle to prove they’re godlike.
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Their palaces are the afterglow of a desire for absolute power.
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But their human bodies still mark the limit of their influence.
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