Grand Trianon
Letizia Bonaparte When he became Emperor in 1804 Napoleon decided to give the Grand Trianon to his mother. Furniture was
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The Mistresses’ Mother
In case you were wondering how the mother of the Mailly sisters reacted to her daughters becoming serial mistresses of
Madame de Pompadour’s Bed
Madame de Pompadour was the first official King’s mistress to come from the bourgeois business class, which did not go
Madame Victoire’s Bed
Adelaide’s sister Victoire had the adjoining apartment at Versailles. As with all the apartments at Versailles, the fabrics were changed
Madame Adelaide’s Bed
The only one of Louis XV’s daughters to marry was the eldest –Elisabeth. She married her second cousin, one of
Madame du Barry’s Bed
If the nobility had a problem with Mme de Pompadour’s background, it paled into insignificance when the next (and last)
Louis XV’s Bed
When he returned to Versailles Louis XV moved into his great grandfather’s bedroom. He kept up the tradition of the
Louis XV’s Marriage
It had been agreed that Louis XV would marry his Spanish cousin Mariana Victoria. She arrived in Paris at the
