Absolute Monarchy East and West: Chongjo and Louis XIV

Abstract

As important as it is for the public to be governed only by a single person, it is just as important for the one who performs this function to be raised so far above the others that no one else may be confused or compared with him […]. Louis XIV1 All under a single Heaven and all within a single state, do they not together do homage to a single person and together as one serve a single ruler? Chŏngjo.