• La Chambre du Roi (French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃bʁ dy ʁwa]), "the king's bedchamber"), has always been the central feature of the king's apartment in traditional...
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    plaisirs et affaires de la chambre du roi ("silver, small entertainments and affairs of the king's chamber"). The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi was in charge of theater...
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    sequence of five Bontemps to hold the position of Premier valet de la Chambre du Roi ("First valet of the king's bedchamber") in uninterrupted succession...
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    1701 by combining two adjacent rooms, the deuxième antichambre and chambre du roi. The salon de l'œil de bœuf became the main antechamber to the King's...
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    passim Journal de Papillon de la Ferté, intendant et contrôleur de l'argenterie, menus-plaisirs et affaires de la chambre du roi (1756-1780) Publié avec une...
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    Gardes du Corps du Roi (King's bodyguard) was the senior formation of the King of France's household cavalry within the maison militaire du roi de France...
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  • whole and a Dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi in charge of the orderly production of designs. The Cabinet du Roi—in the seventeenth-century...
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    First Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the king (Premier gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi). The d'Aumont family became extinct in 1888 with Louis Marie Joseph...
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    footsteps as one of the eight "Tapissiers ordinaires de la chambre du Roi", with a valet de chambre's rank, he had to pay 1,200 livres. But the title required...
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  • a French composer and violoncello player. He was an Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi and a member of the King's Bande of Twenty-Four Violins and of the...
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    made a gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (gentleman of the king's chamber) granting him a degree of privileged access to the king. La Rochepot accompanied...
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    musique de la chambre du roi" and kept this position until his death. In that time, Lully was the "Surintendant de la musique de la chambre du roi" (from...
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    now Salle de la Vénus de Milo The chambre à alcôve du roi as rebuilt in the Colonnade Wing Detail of the chamber's alcove The chambre de parade as rebuilt...
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    until 1757, when he acquired the title of Gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi (Gentleman of the King's Chamber). On 5 April 1762, King Louis XV...
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    divisions of past decades. When he became surintendant de la musique de la chambre du roi in 1661, the Great Violins also came under Lully's control...
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    First Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber (Premier gentilhomme de la Chambre du roi) in 1666 (a high privilege whose recipient was in charge of ordering...
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    Saint-Michel (knights of the order of Saint-Michel) and gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (gentleman of the king's chamber) were ordered to lodge and sleep...
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    keyboard and chamber music. In 1717 Couperin became ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin––one of the highest possible appointments...
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    Boyceau was made a gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi and ennobled for his efforts, as the sieur de la Barauderie. Boyceau's book is the first French...
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    François, and around 1520 he was established as premier gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (first gentleman of the king's chamber), giving him privileged private...
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  • harpsichordist, the first woman to hold the position of ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin (court musician to the King of France). The...
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    Gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi Louis XVIII, en tant que Prince d'Umbriano del Precetto, un titre héréditaire, reçu par bref pontifical du 1er octobre 1847...
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    council. To the west of this building he built his own residence, the chambre de Roi. Finally, he built a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Further additions...
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  • he succeeded his father as surintendant and compositeur de la musique de la chambre du roi and he was nominated for another of his father's posts, Director...
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    the King's Exchequer (comptes du Roi). In or around 1303, the Paris Court of Accounts was established in the Palais de la Cité where it remained until...
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    Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roi, which had become a family sinecure. In 1725 he married his cousin, Marie Hortense de La Tour d'Auvergne (1704–1788)...
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  • diplomatic service from Henri, who made him a gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi (ordinary gentleman of the king's chamber) by 1592. He died sometime...
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    mother Catherine and after surrendering his abbeys, gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (gentleman of the king's chamber) and capitaine de cinquante hommes...
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  • 18th-century French officer of the Maison militaire du roi de France (Gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi), writer and Encyclopédiste. Quiret de Margency...
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    the duke of Montpensier. By 1569 he was a gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi. Richelieu saw his first military service during the third French...
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