# Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path

Date: 1682

## The fact

At Versailles, pensions and offices concentrated patronage around Louis XIV. The instrument is that access machine, not a later etiquette handbook as his 1682 act. Louis XIV of France's documented role is: He paid pensions and sold or granted offices. Nobles sought access. This is not a unique bribe series; it is the court as a patronage machine.

## Context

Colbert's household and later ministers share the pension lists. Sharing unnamed courtiers is required. Building labour remains the works row. The setting of Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path is the public file around 1682-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Château de Versailles — court life under Louis XIV at https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv (Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles). Independent locator: Britannica — Louis XIV, court and patronage neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Château de Versailles — court life under Louis XIV (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles). Independent carrier: Britannica — Louis XIV, court and patronage neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Château de Versailles — court life under Louis XIV (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles).

## Significance

Worsening path from Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path on 1682-06-01. Concentrated royal patronage as the path to office is an institutional-corruption path of medium weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with construction labour. Ceremony is not a scaffold. Mixed effects of Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path under 1682-06-01 for Louis XIV of France. Established: a sourced public record of Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path under 1682-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Versailles court pensions and offices concentrate patronage as a dated corruption-of-access path. Naming Louis XIV of France does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1682-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Louis XIV of France: https://factrail.ai/people/louis-xiv-of-france

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/l14-court-patronage