The Ménagerie royale de Versailles (literal French for "Royal Menagerie of Versailles") was Louis XIV's first major project at Versailles. It was built...

throughout Europe, at Versailles, the site of a royal hunting lodge two hours (by carriage) west of Paris. Around 1661, he had a menagerie of "ferocious" beasts...

housed in the Royal Menagerie of Versailles, died 13 years later in 1681. It is known that she was fed daily with 80 pounds of bread, 12 litres of wine, a large...

The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ/ vair-SY, vur-SY; French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ) is a former royal residence commissioned...

the Palace of Versailles have a historical relation with the history and evolution of the palace. Of these five structures – the Ménagerie, the Pavillon...

The Rhinoceros of Versailles was a living Indian rhinoceros which was kept in the Palace of Versailles menagerie from 1770 until 1793. The rhinoceros...

let the animals (the exact number of which is unknown) live. The Royal Menagerie (Ménagerie Royale) in Versailles was dissolved and these animals were...

of Versailles is the largest basin in the park of the Palace of Versailles. Cross-shaped, it was built between 1667 and 1679, at the instigation of André...

1748, and was received by King Louis XV in January 1749 at the royal menagerie in Versailles. She spent 5 months in Paris, creating a sensation: letters...

the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the Ménagerie Royale de Versailles, the menagerie at...

the royal menagerie at Versailles, primarily for scientific research and education. The planning about a space for the conservation and observation of animals...

the French Garden of the Petit Trianon, in the grounds of the Château de Versailles. Built in 1750, this pavilion is set in the heart of the formal garden...

Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. London (Piccadilly): Chatto and Windus. pp. Vol 2 Ch. XII 1675-1755. La Roche, concierge de la Ménagerie, avait un...

time in the Royal Menagerie in Versailles; lobo-cerval is derived from Latin lupus cervarius, literally and respectively "wolf" and "of or pertaining...

created between 1798 and 1836 as a home for the animals of the royal menagerie at Versailles, which were largely abandoned after the French Revolution. Its...

of the (created in 1626) and the birds of the Royal Menagerie of Versailles (His successors went to the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes when it was created...

la reine is the Queen's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles. Forming a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi, the grand...

belonging to Montespan escaped from their menagerie and managed to find, and destroy, Marie's apartment in Versailles. This event was widely discussed at court...

of the royal pack. In two paintings of dead game he made for the menagerie at the Palace of Versailles in 1751 (Louvre Museum, Paris), his manner of representation...

best sources for identifying the original animal population of the Versailles menagerie as they were inventoried by Nicolas Bailly in his Inventaire...

on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was built between 1762 and 1768 during the reign of King Louis XV of France. The Petit...

resulting in approximate accounting. "Retour de la Cour à Versailles". Château de Versailles (in French). 23 August 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2024. "Annuaire...

Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the French Garden of the Petit Trianon, in the grounds of the Château de Versailles. Built between 1751 and 1753, this new building...

King Louis XIV's Royal Menagerie at the Palace of Versailles. In 1825 William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven succeeded to become the owner of Coombe Abbey. In...

Glass Menagerie as Amanda. Between 20 August and 12 November 2016, Scacchi played Phoebe Rice opposite Kenneth Branagh's Archie Rice in a revival of John...

village of Trianon [fr] was situated to the northwest of Versailles. As Louis XIV developed the former hunting lodge at Versailles into a royal palace...

kept in a menagerie as in Versalles, but grazed around or were employed as beasts of burden. Bulls and exotic animals were also used in the royal pastimes...

royal palaces of Europe. Its frontal width of 632 m (2,073 ft) (north–south axis) even surpasses Versailles. The palace was commissioned by the electoral...

Lanterne, Versailles Hôtel Matignon (official residence of the French prime minister) Armand-Claude Mollet (1660–1742), from the Mollet dynasty of royal gardeners...

been proposed; some think a lion (namely a subadult male) escaped from a menagerie, due to the size and some descriptions being more similar to a lion than...