What other courts were similar to Louis XIV of France's court in Versailles?

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Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, built a retreat called Sans Souci that many consider a miniature "Versailles."

It was built at Potsdam, which is to say twenty miles or so away from Berlin, as Versailles was from Paris, to allow the king refuge from the capital. The estate featured a large park, fountains, and numerous temples for the king's strolling pleasure.

The Prussian state was very much modeled on the feudal system, with "the nobles connected to lands." But most of the (male) nobles were in the Army at some point in their lives. The way for the king to control the nobles from fighting each other was to control the (centralized) army, so hosting the nobles at Sans Souci was not as important to Prussia as it was to Louis XIV at Versailles.

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