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    The grand appartement du roi is the King's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles. As a result of Louis Le Vau's envelope of Louis XIII’s château...
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    The appartement du roi or King's Apartment is the suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles that served as the living quarters of Louis XIV. Overlooking...
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    The petit appartement du roi (French: [pɛtit‿apaʁtmɑ̃ dy ʁwa]) of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI...
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    Versailles. Forming a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi, the grand appartement de la reine served as the residence of three Queens of...
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    connects the Royal Chapel in the North Wing of the château with the grand appartement du roi. Originally, the fourth and penultimate chapel, the salon d’Hercule...
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    The grands appartements (Grand Apartments, also referred to as the State Apartments) include the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de...
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    Versailles, with the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de la reine (not to mention the petit appartement du roi), or at Hampton Court...
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    and one for the Queen. The grand appartement du roi occupied the northern part of the château neuf and grand appartement de la reine occupied the southern...
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  • The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi (French pronunciation: [məny pleziʁ dy ʁwa]) was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime,...
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    of the petit appartement de la reine, the so-called secret passage that links the grand appartement de la reine with the appartement du roi is one that...
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    The Salon of Mercury is part of the Grand appartement du roi in the Versailles Palace and is decorated with rose colored wallpaper....
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    Pavillon du Roi; Lescot wing completed in 1553); Fig. 20, discussed on p. 143. Christiane Aulanier (1955). La Petite Galerie / Appartement d'Anne d'Autriche...
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    situated in the Grand appartement de la reine and formed the symmetrical pendant with the Salon de Diane in the Grand appartement du roi. This chapel was...
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    is undistinguished. The one to the left, on the other hand, the Appartement du Roi, is also called à l'italienne in that it is covered in false vaulting...
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    the ground floor of the Palace underneath the Grand Appartement du roi. Originally called the Appartements des Bains, they were the former apartments of...
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    François Lemoyne (category Premiers peintres du Roi)
    painting "L'apothéose d'Hercule" in the Salon d'Hercule in the grand appartement du roi, and the day after completing the painting Time Saving Truth from...
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    antechamber to the Grand appartement du roi, but also at the Versailles, where she painted for the antechamber of the Grand appartement de la reine. Madeleine...
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    wing detached: Appartement d'Etranger (north wing) Logement du Grand Ecuryer (north wing) Logement d'Etranger (south wing) Logement du Grand Chambellan (south...
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    humor on French television. He also founded the charity "Les Restaurants du Cœur" which still provides free meals and other products to people in need...
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    protecting Arephuse against the Alphee River, a 1672 painting in the Salon de Diane, one of the Grand appartement du roi in the Palace of Versailles....
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    chapel. The grand appartement is composed of the Salle des évêques (Bishops' Hall) – the former Antichambre du roi – the Chambre du roi (Bedchamber of...
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    the decoration of the garden façade, imagery in the decors of the grands appartements of the king and queen formed a symbiosis with the imagery of the...
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    occupying the first floor of the Aile du Midi of the Palace of Versailles, joining onto the grand and petit appartement de la reine. 120 m (390 ft) long and...
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    and the arts leads to the Grand Appartements. A guard room with a collection of arms and armour leads to the Chambre du Roi, richly hung with five Paris...
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    noticed the cabinet in gallery of the appartement du roi (angle du pavillon du midi, à l'étage) and the grand salon, decorated by Louis-Claude Vassé...
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    three-storey section, and two single-floor wings: the Appartement des Bains to the right, and the Petit Appartement (private apartments) to the left. The French-style...
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    materials and colors. After being displayed in the château's Petits appartements du Roi, it was returned to its original position in 2008. The walls are...
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    theaters were most often constructed in one of the rooms of the petit appartement du roi, with the petite galerie being the most frequently used starting from...
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    avec un succès étonnant dans quelques appartements de Meudon, aussi bien que dans les plafonds & sur les lambris du Château de la Ménagerie: seul bâtiment...
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    cited as the most opulent. At this time, the Hall of Mirrors and the grand appartements were still decorated with the original silver furniture. In its heyday...
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