Louis XIV's government included all the following EXCEPT

a. regular consultations with the parlements.
b. Versailles as a palace of distractions for the aristocracy.
c. intendants as royal agents administrating the districts of France.
d. a very competent finance minister, Colbert.
e. a huge military machine with an army of 300,000.


a

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