"his ministers, generals, mistresses, and courtiers soon found out his weak point, namely, his love of hearing his own praises. there was nothing he liked so much as flattery, or, to put it more plainly, adulation; the coarser and clumsier it was, the more he relished he took to himself the credit of their successes with admirable complacency, and honestly believed that he was all his flatterers told not only did he expect all persons of distinction to be in continual attendance at court, but he was quick to notice the absence of those of inferior (i)n the gardens of versailles (the only place where the courtiers in general were allowed to follow him), he used to cast his eyes to right and left; nothing escaped him, he saw everybody." - duc de saint-simon, c.1710 this passage is describing which absolutist ruler?