L'État, c'est moi

L'État, c'est moi (English: "I am the state", lit. 'the state, it is me') is an apocryphal saying attributed to King Louis XIV. It was allegedly said on 13 April 1655 before the Parlement of Paris. It is supposed to assert the primacy of the royal authority in a context of defiance with the Parliament, which contests royal edicts taken in lit de justice on 20 March 1655. The phrase symbolizes absolute monarchy and absolutism.

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