Napoleon’s Beds
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Napoleon and Versailles
The year he became Emperor Napoleon had decided to re-establish all the former royal chateaux as imperial palaces. General Duroc*
Fontainebleau
Madame de Montesquiou ordered another rocking cradle in elm wood trimmed with laurels (the Roman emblem of victory). As usual,
The Count de Vaudreuil’s Bed
In 1784 the Count de Vaudreuil purchased a grand residence in Paris and filled it with the latest furniture and
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 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 Children
Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska had ten children. Twin girls were born less than two years after their marriage. Louis