Adelaide’s sister Victoire had the adjoining apartment at Versailles.
As with all the apartments at Versailles, the fabrics were changed for winter and summer. The summer fabrics are normally displayed.
The silk taffeta in her bedroom is similar to the summer fabric Victoire had there in 1769.
Adelaide and Victoire inherited the Chateau of Bellevue which had been built by Madame de Pompadour. They spent a lot of their time there.
When Versailles was invaded at the start of the French Revolution they did not accompany the royal family to the Tuileries in Paris, preferring their own residence at Bellevue.
Two years later they left for Rome where they stayed under the protection of the Pope for five years. The Revolutionary French army invaded and they and their entourage of eighty people moved to Naples where Marie-Antoinette’s sister was queen. When Naples was invaded they moved to Trieste.
Victoire died there of breast cancer a few months later at the age of 66.
Less than a year later Adelaide died shortly before her 68th birthday. After the French revolution their nephew King Louis XVIII brought their bodies back to France and interred them at St Denis.
