LE PARC ET LE DÉCOR CONSTAMMENT CHANGENT
Palais intimes, végétation, soies
- La grotte de Thetys, détruite quand le palais est élargi en 1684, et le Petit Trianon
Louis XIV in Front of the Grotto of Thetis, anonymous, 1670's / zoom
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Trianon Perspective Seen from the Entry by Adam Perelle, toward 1680 / zoom |
- Thousands of grown trees are uprooted and replanted in the Versailles park:
- Ten thousand tulips are brought from Holland and planted at night, to surprise courtiers when they wake.
Gone from the web
- Monumental silver
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Louis XIV Receives the Doge of Genoa, 1685 (detail) / zoom |
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Louis XIV visite l'établissement des Gobelins by Charles Le Brun 1673 / zoom |
- Priceless silks: Before Versailles, they were carried from chateau to chateau as the kings moved. But after king settles there, they are renewed twice a year.
When the marquise de Montespan's pet bear destroys silks in a salon, Louis says nothing.
Waste is necessary.
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