# The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file

Date: 1682

## The fact

In 1682 the court moved to Versailles. Construction labour, including reports of marsh disease among workers, sits in that dated building file. The instrument is royal works, not a later ticketed visit. Louis XIV of France's documented role is: He commissioned the palace-city. Colbert, Louvois, Le Vau, Hardouin-Mansart, and unnamed workers share the works. Later tourist numbers are not 1682. Medium confidence on a unique death series in the marshes.

## Context

Hardouin-Mansart, Le Nôtre, and Colbert's works administration share the site. Sharing unnamed labour is required. Court ceremony as patronage sits on the corruption row. The setting of The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file is the public file around 1682-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [labour-market-tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file. Naming Louis XIV of France does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1682-01-01 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.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Château de Versailles — Louis XIV, court at Versailles 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: Met Heilbrunn — Louis XIV neighbourhood at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/loui/hd_loui.htm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Official carrier: Château de Versailles — Louis XIV, court at Versailles (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles). Independent carrier: Met Heilbrunn — Louis XIV neighbourhood (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/loui/hd_loui.htm; The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Official or archival record: Château de Versailles — Louis XIV, court at Versailles (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 The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file on 1682-01-01. Royal works that concentrate unpaid and poorly paid labour, including reports of marsh disease, are a labour path stored as cost. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file under 1682-01-01 for Louis XIV of France. Established: a sourced public record of The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file under 1682-01-01.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat a 2024 exhibition as his act. Do not invent a unique worker-death coefficient. Mixed effects of The court moves to Versailles in 1682; construction labour, marsh disease, and forced works sit in the dated building file are separate paths.

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/loui/hd_loui.htm
- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/l14-versailles-labour