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France Versailles
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angela aul
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Versailles - gates
Versailles
Versailles - ceiling
Versailles - Detail from The King's bedchamber
Versailles - Louis XIVchose the paintings when he moved to this room - faces the rising sun but it's also where he died after reigning 70 odd years
Versailles - Louis XIV domesticated his nobles - his bedchamber.
Versailles -decorative lintel, the tympanum bears the LP initials Louis Philipe
Versailles hall of fame - some are copies of originals at Saint Abbaye /saint Denis
Versailles -Clovis Roi de France en 656
Versaille opera is unusually made almost entirely of wood and mirrors - the front stalls can be raised to create a ball room
Versailles opera house
Sevres Blue coloured china created originally only for Louis XV
Versailles - limited dinner service collection which was lost to the Palace after the revolution. A few bits here - on loan from our Q Elizabeth .
Versailles: private book room - neo classical. Porcelain figures are Louis XVI contemporary academics. Note the globes - a time when Laperouse was sent on a scientific globe trot- Napolean applied to join it but was rejected.
Versailles- was Madame Pompdour's room but converted to a Louis's daughter's music room after MP death.
Versailles: The word 'secretaire' comes from secret - inspired by the secretive working bureau created especially for LouisXV - artwork showing some signs of moving from rococco to neo classically- the wedgewood plaque replaces the Royal coat of arms lost
Versailles: Louis XV astronomical clock - still works
Versailles Louis XV 's barometer in his private dining room - only accessible in private tour
Model of Versailles- private tour
Versailles- big palace many glories
Versailles terrestrial and celestial double globe for the Dauphin- dolphins are a word Play on Dauphin. Astrological carvings at base. On loan from the French llibrary.
Coronation room- crowning of Josephine
Versailles bust of Descartes
Versailles bust of Voltaire
Versailles - battle of austerlitz
