Abstract
The article is devoted to the productivity of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the discourse of the amusing in the culture of absolutism: manifestations of obligatory laughter and fun, codes of fun and pastime, visualization and legitimation of leisure, etc. The purpose of the analysis is to reveal the everyday and symbolic contexts of the funny in the Versailles space, articulated both in the spatial organization of the palace and the park complex and in the codes of Louis XIV for the development of this space. Based on the material of the spatial constructions of the Gardens, the declarative “Maniere de montrer les Jardins de Versailles”, created by Louis XIV himself, the methods of organizing holidays and codes of conduct of the courtiers, it is concluded that control over the Life of the Court is absolutized. Laughter, including comedies, water traps, fun, big and small holidays become an instrument of cultural-political conversion of the space of leisure into the representation of absolute power.
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