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To where did King Louis XIV (14th) move the French capital?

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The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution.

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He moved it to Versailles to escape the turmoil Paris was subject to.

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