Louis XIV managed to control the nobles of France and their activities by
A) crushing the most powerful nobles in a civil war early in his reign.
B) heavily taxing the nobles' estates so they could no longer fund private armies.
C) requiring the nobility to live at Versailles where he could distract them and keep an eye on them.
D) appointing hundreds of new nobles from the merchant class, who were loyal to him.
E) All these answers are correct.
Answer: C) requiring the nobility to live at Versailles where he could distract them and keep an eye on them.
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