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Title: Versailles and the court under Louis XIV
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Farmer, James Eugene, 1867-1915
Subjects: Versailles (France) -- Description France -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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nts. Theoriginal decorations have entirely disappeared, and at present,as a part of the palace museum, the Hall of the Guards is de-voted to Napoleon and the glories of the First Empire. Thishall was the first chapel of the chateau from 1670 to 1682, atwhich date the second chapel was constructed to the northof the royal court on the site of the present salon of Hercules.In the Grand Hall of the Guards, Louis XIV washed the feetof the poor each year on Holy Thursday. From this hall a handsome passage led to the large salonconnecting the central portion of the chateau with the southwing. There certain shopkeepers, who had bought the priv-ilege, had their booths in which they sold, for the conve-nience of the courtiers, books, stationery, watches, jewelry,toilet articles, and perfumery; and this fact gave the roomits name, the salon of Shopkeepers. Under Louis XIV thesepeople were kept within limits, but at a later period theyspread themselves on the landings of the staircases and in 46
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The Grand Hall of the Guards and Other Apartments other parts of the chateau. Beyond this salon was the spa-cious staircase of the princes from which doors led to theapartments of the long south wing, where the princes of theblood were lodged. THE APARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNESS OF THECHILDREN OF FRANCE After 1682 the governess of the Children of France was theMarechale de la Mothe, who occupied a suite of rooms on themain floor of the wing which stands between the royal courtand the court of the princes. There she brought up the threesons of the Grand Dauphin, the Dues de Bourgogne, dAnjou,and de Berry, and later the Due de Bourgogne lived thereuntil the death of his father in 1711. THE NORTH AND SOUTH WINGS To finish with the main floor of the chateau, a word should beadded concerning the north and south wings on the side ofthe gardens. The north wing was inhabited by a large num-ber of nobles whose residence in the chateau was made neces-sary by the nature of the posts they held at cou

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