The Story of Versailles
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The Story of Versailles is by Francis Loring Payne. The contents include chapters called The Beginning of Versailles, The Making of Versailles, Golden Days and Red Letter Nights and The Women of Versailles, among others. In 1561 Martial de Léomenie, Secretary of Finance under Charles IX, became master of Versailles.
The land and barony of Versailles was sold to Louis XIII in 1632 for 66,000 pounds, the original deed describing it as an old house in ruins and a farm with several buildings. Mgr. le Dauphin is said to have changed his disguise eight or ten times each evening. Pope Pius VII was there in 1805, and from the balcony outside the Gallery of Mirrors he bestowed his benediction upon a crowd that stood below on the terraces.
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- Francis Loring Payne
- Pages
- 73
- Language
- English
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- European History
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