The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi (French pronunciation: [məny pleziʁ dy ʁwa]) was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime...

argenterie, menus plaisirs et affaires de la chambre du roi ("silver, small entertainments and affairs of the king's chamber"). The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi was...

worked in Baroque style, and active mainly in Paris and Rome for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. A Parisian by birth, Slodtz's father, Sébastien Slodtz, was also...

from 1763 the sole Intendant) of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, the organization in the royal household (the Maison du Roi) he was responsible for the logistical...

the Hôtel de Sénac de Meilhan. At no. 15 was the former Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, where his administration was based, in a vast building that stretched...

the study and performance of French Baroque music, based at the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. It was founded by Philippe Beaussant and Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt...

designer who held the post of dessinateur de la Chambre et du cabinet de Roi in the Menus Plaisirs du Roi in the early years of Louis XIV of France. Jean Bérain...

by excluding military outlays and other 'extraordinary' charges (Menus-Plaisirs du Roi) and ignoring the national debt. Both Necker and Calonne were deceived...

(CNSMDL). On 3 December 1783 Papillon de la Ferté, intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, proposed that Niccolò Piccinni should be appointed director of...

menus-plaisirs et affaires de la chambre du Roi, 1756-1780, Paris, éd. Ernest Boysse, Ollendorff, 1887 ; réédition Versailles, éd. Menus-Plaisirs du Roy...

engraver of ornament, the artistic force in the Royal office of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi where all the designs originated for court spectacle, from fêtes...

been transferred to the elected representatives of the Nation. The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi was under the direction of Papillon de la Ferté and he gave details...

style pastel painter, best remembered for being commissioned by the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi to paint a portrait of Marie Antoinette in 1769, and for a later...

power through the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. Anne-Pierre-Jacques de Vismes du Valgay was the son of Martin de Vismes, secrétaire du roi [fr], and Louise Legendre...

An office existed in the royal household of Louis XIV called Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, which was responsible the decoration at royal ceremonies and spectacles...

earned him an appointment as the decorator of stage sets for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. Four years later, the Russian Ambassador in Paris presented him...

to 1800 or 1801. Bailleux was music seller of the Chambre et des Menus Plaisirs du Roi between 1772 and 1778 ; then ordinary music dealer of the King and...

librettist. A general controller of silverware and an intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, Bonneval regulated as such the expense of clothes and furniture...

festivities organized by that section of the King's household called the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi and for the opera and for royal châteaux Versailles, Fontainebleau...

overseen by the organisation of the French royal household called the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi: the designer-decorator Sébastien-Antoine (1695–1754) and the sculptor...

Charles-Louis Clérisseau. Bélanger began his career in 1767, working at the Menus Plaisirs du Roi designing ephemeral decorations for court fêtes, and by 1777 he...

Cambridge University Press. p. 540. It had been in the care of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi under the Ancien Régime. Émile Zola, "Deux Expositions d'art au...

from 1739 he was formally attached as designer and engraver to the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, where all such ephemeral occasions were produced. As well as being...

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 2 sonates pour l’orgue in the 'Menus plaisirs du Roi', Paris Celebration music for the feast of San Rocco in Venice (1769)...

Peignot was impassioned by the work of the writer and illustrator of Menus-Plaisirs du roi, Cochin. He then proposed a new typeface, inspired by a design found...

of publishers, privilègiés du Roi. In 1770 he succeeded Charles-Nicolas Cochin as chief Dessinateur des Menus Plaisirs du Roi, on Cochin's recommendation...

beheaded. Professor Pinetti performed frequently in his theatre des Menus Plaisirs du Roi, in the suburbs of Paris. His stage setting was glorious while at...

appears regularly. He is portrayed by Benjamin Lavernhe in 2023 film Jeanne du Barry. CESAR (Calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime...

Brigide Marion, daughter of Antoine Marion, an employee of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi and intendant (bursar) of the Marquis of Béringhen, who was Premier...

embroiled in intrigues. Seigneur de la Ferté, the intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, a sort of master of royal ceremonies who was also head of the Académie...