This time, it was Versailles that inspired him. After seven years away from Versailles, the Court returned in Louis XV, aged 12 at the time, was thrilled to go back to the palace of his great-grandfather Louis XIV, where he had been born. The Palace remained his official residence until his death in The Sublime Porte was the first embassy to be received in the Hall of Mirrors since , but it was nevertheless welcomed in accordance with long-established ritual.
The occasion was an important one: an alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire was at stake. The lovers remained together thereafter.
There had been no attempts to harm the sacred body of the king since the attack by Ravaillac in But in , as Louis XV was leaving the Palace, a man rushed towards him and stabbed him in the side. The young Mozart came to Versailles during a tour of Europe with his father, Leopold, and his sister, Nannerl. His impression of the visit was mixed. In , after three centuries of animosity , France and Austria became allies. To consolidate this diplomatic reconciliation, Louis XV and Empress Maria Theresa decided to marry their respective children.
The project came to fruition approximately 12 years later with the marriage of the Duke of Berry, Dauphin of France, aged 15, to Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, aged The celebrations got underway on 16 and 17 May in Versailles. His passing brought to an end a reign of 59 years, the longest in the history of France after that of Louis XIV. Besides his brotherly concerns, he also came as a knowledgeable sovereign curious to discover the kingdom of France. It was at Versailles that the decision was made to recognise the United States of America as a nation in The first 'aerostatic' flight in history was an experiment carried out by the Montgolfier brothers at Versailles in At long last, man could leave the surface of the earth below.
Cardinal Rohan intended to give Marie-Antoinette a luxurious diamond necklace to regain her favour. But an imposter posing as the queen proved cleverer than the Cardinal, causing a glittering scandal. This assembly was composed of three estates — the clergy, nobility and commoners — who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.
On 20 June , in the Real Tennis Room, not far from the Palace of Versailles, the deputies swore never to separate until they had given France a Constitution. Having started in Versailles in May , the French Revolution saw its first concrete act here in October of the same year with the departure of the king. After a century of royal residency the Versailles legend came to an end, and Paris once again became the centre of the kingdom. A new page in the history of France was being written.
Having become a central storage depot for the arts for the Department of Seine-et-Oise in , the Palace later saw the creation of a Central Museum for the arts. It was later replaced by the Special Museum of the French School, to complement the Louvre, which was to focus on foreign schools of art. Early in the new year he set out to visit the former residence of the kings of France. A large crowd gathered to wait for him in Versailles. In Louis-Philippe, King of the French, was finally able to inaugurate the historic galleries he had wanted to install in Versailles.
The day was a key event in the history of the Palace. Both died by the guillotine in His traces in Versailles The King's private apartments. He became Dauphin in and inherited the throne in at the age of His governor, the Duke of La Vauguyon , provided him with a well-rounded education but singularly failed to prepare the young prince for the concrete challenges of government.
This lack of preparation was compounded by the fact that he was only the third royal son and did not become heir apparent until after the death of his two elder brothers. Upon taking the throne Louis XVI decided to dispense with the political team assembled by his grandfather, Louis XV, and replaced them with ministers such as Turgot , Necker and Calonne. The French Revolution was underway.
Together they had four children. Only the eldest, Madame Royale , born in , and the Second Dauphin , born in , survived to see the outbreak of the French Revolution. Louis XVI indulged his interest in the applied sciences and the latest technical and mechanical curiosities in the special cabinets and laboratories he had installed near his private chambers.
They included workshops devoted to physics, mechanics, chemistry, woodworking, watchmaking and lock-making, along with a working forge and a room for experiments involving electricity. The king also took a keen interest in maritime exploration and the discovery of new lands. Throughout the eighteenth century, the kings of France devoted more and more time to their personal lives at the expense of their ceremonial lives, i. On certain evenings the King did hold semi-official suppers in his private apartment , with around 60 guests including the Queen, other members of the royal family, ministers and courtiers.
But the King was indecisive and reluctant to ratify the texts proclaiming the abolition of privileges and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, promulgated shortly after the storming of the Bastille on 14 July On 5 October a mob descended on Versailles and demanded that the royal family decamp to Paris. The King was transferred to the Tuileries Palace, before attempting to flee in June Arrested in Varennes, he was brought back to Paris. In he was tried by the revolutionaries. Louis XVI died at the guillotine on 21 January Revise your French history with help from the artworks of the Palace of Versailles!
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