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Louis XIV ( September 1638—Sep-tember 1715 ) , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death.His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in Euro-pean history.As a legendary king in European his-tory, Louis XIV did not expect the Enlightenment, but instead, he experienced the beginning period of the concept of “nation”.During his entire life, the public image of Louis XIV was represented in different forms and occasions:in paintings and en-gravings, medals and sculptures, plays, ballets, and operas.It is the place of Louis XIV in the col-lective imagination that Burke focuses on.All these contemporary representations of Louis XIV is the material for Peter Burke to show how the making of a royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power, between fabricating a king and the rising up of nationalism.Burke stresses that during Louis XIV's tenure, by introducing the idea of e-quality and freedom, the concept of “nation” be-gan to undermine the legitimacy of kingship char-acterized by oracle and hierarchy.While Benedict Anderson believes that the history of the nation-state is the history of imagination and a fixing of ethnic borders, and that a nation is a imagined po-litical community, Burke illustrates another way for the forming of national identity: by fabricating a hero, an exemplary and a center.Therefore, The Fabrication of Louis XIV provides an inspiring per-spective to rethink the rise of nationalism and a way of creating identity.