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The Orangery". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 8 December 2016 . Retrieved 14 August 2021. Reception of the Doge of Genoa, 1685". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 22 November 2016 . Retrieved 23 June 2021. Maral, Alexandre (2010). "Chapelle royale". In Gady, Alexandre (ed.). Jules hardouin-Mansart 1646–1708. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. pp.215––228. ISBN 9782735111879. Unfortunately a very predictable, anticlimactic ending. Not worth the long drawn-out hours of reading.

I enjoyed the story line, I'm not too sure I would want to move in with several of my friends, to a place I barely knew, but then again I guess some risks are worth taking aren't they! The Grand Commun". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 2 August 2019 . Retrieved 18 June 2021.However the writing style is difficult to get into in the beginning. It reads terribly like a high school essay where the author is mixing between French and English. This detracts from the flow whilst making it a flat read. If it wasn't for the storyline you'd give up. Palace of Versailles | palace, Versailles, France". Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 28 August 2017. The Royal Opera of Versailles was originally commissioned by Louis XIV in 1682 and was to be built at the end of the North Wing with a design by Mansart and Vigarani. However, due to the expense of the King's continental wars, the project was put aside. The idea was revived by Louis XV with a new design by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1748, but this was also temporarily put aside. The project was revived and rushed ahead for the planned celebration of the marriage of the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, and Marie-Antoinette. For economy and speed, the new opera was built almost entirely of wood, which also gave it very high quality acoustics. The wood was painted to resemble marble, and the ceiling was decorated with a painting of the Apollo, the god of the arts, preparing crowns for illustrious artists, by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau. The sculptor Augustin Pajou added statuary and reliefs to complete the decoration. The new Opera was inaugurated on 16 May 1770, as part of the celebration of the royal wedding. [175] It didn't take me all that long to get into this story. As soon as I started reading, I knew that this was one book, which would prove extremely difficult to put to one side for any length of time and so it proved to be. Whilst reading this book I became totally wrapped up in the lives and stories of the people, who were all moving to the country. I had an inkling of how the story was going to develop and of course I had to keep reading to see if I was going to be proved right or not. My need to know what happened in the story meant that I read this book in under 48 hours, which is pretty good going for me. Usually I have the attention span of a gnat and I am easily distracted but not in this case. For the duration of the story, I was able to shut out all other distractions and focus solely on this book.

The Queen's Hamlet". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 26 April 2018 . Retrieved 7 August 2021. The Palace of Versailles is currently owned by the French state. Its formal title is the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. Since 1995, it has been run as a Public Establishment, with an independent administration and management supervised by the French Ministry of Culture. [130]Jerry M. Rosenberg, "France" in The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007–2012 (Scarecrow Press: 2012), p. 262.

Garrigues, Dominique (2001). Jardins et jardiniers de Versailles au grand siècle. Seyssel: Champ Vallon. ISBN 9782876733374. Reception of the Ambassador of Siam, 1686". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 22 November 2016 . Retrieved 23 June 2021. The Salon of Diana was used by Louis XIV as a billiards room, and had galleries from which courtiers could watch him play. The decoration of the walls and ceiling depicts scenes from the life of the goddess Diana. The celebrated bust of Louis XIV by Bernini made during the famous sculptor's visit to France in 1665 is on display here. [159] [ missing long citation] Private apartments of the King and Queen [ edit ] The Estate". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 2 September 2016 . Retrieved 30 June 2021. Oh and did I mention that the so called delightful Château might just need some TLC when things start to go wrong, with leaks, dodgy plumbing, power issues... what are they letting themselves in for!

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The Petit Trianon, whose construction from 1762 to 1768 [212] led to the advent of the names "Grand" and "Petit Trianon", [213] was constructed for Louis XV and the Madame du Barry in the Neoclassical style by Gabriel. [214] [215] The building has a piano nobile, basement, and attic, [212] with five windows on each floor. [213] On becoming king, Louis XVI gave the Petit Trianon to Marie Antoinette, who remodeled it, relaid its gardens in the then-current English and Oriental styles, [213] [216] [217] and formed her own court there. [217] Near the Trianons are the French pavilion, built by Gabriel in 1750 between the two residences, and the Queen's Theater and Queen's Hamlet, built by architect Richard Mique in 1780 and from 1783 to 1785 respectively. These were both built at the behest of Marie Antoinette; [229] the theater, hidden in the gardens, indulged her appreciation of opera and is absolutely original, [214] and the hamlet to extend her gardens with rustic amenities. [229] [230] [231] Ayers, Andrew (2004). The Architecture of Paris: An Architectural Guide. Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 9783930698967.