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The four other French windows opening onto the living room are surmounted by Méry stone masks of divinities, also representing the seasons. [ 42 ] On the balustrade, statuettes of children alternate with vases of flowers, [ 23 ] originally the work of Jules-Antoine Rousseau, sculptor to the king's buildings. [ 20 ]
The appartement du roi or King's Apartment [1] is the suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles that served as the living quarters of Louis XIV.Overlooking the Marble Court (cour de marbre), these rooms are situated in the oldest part of the chateau in rooms originally designated for use by the queen in Louis XIII's chateau.
The windows on the first floor were flanked by pairs of banded Corinthian order columns supporting a frieze, a modillioned cornice and a balustaded parapet. Above the central bay, there was a cross window flanked by atlantes supporting a cornice and a clock with a moulded surround. There were also dormer windows with ornate surrounds above the ...
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. Located on the first floor of the palace, the rooms are found in the oldest part of the palace dating from the reign of Louis XIII .
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, constructed as part of Louis XIV 's second building campaign (1669–1672), the King and Queen had new apartments in the new addition, known at the time as the château neuf (new palace).
The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
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Seemingly open onto the gardens, the drawing room floor is located above a ground floor that overlooks, on the Versailles side, a small rectangular courtyard of honor rounded at the corners, [68] redesigned in Marie-Antoinette's time, framed by a small wall and a hedge of hornbeams and closed by a soft green gate flanked by two sentry boxes. [69]