In the seventeenth century section of the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles’s ‘Visitors to Versailles’ database, almost all of the entries are dithyrambic.
Sylvie Requemora
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Versailles et ses visiteurs étrangers, xviie-xixe siècle
This article presents the results of the analysis of the documentary corpus gathered in the ‘Visiteurs de Versailles’ database, published in 2019 by the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles.
Flavie Leroux
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Admiration to Intimacy: Versailles and the English, from Louis XIV to Louis XVI
More than any other foreigners, the English were fascinated by Versailles. Fifty per cent of foreign books on Versailles before 1789 were in English.
Philip Mansel
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Le mythe de Versailles et l’Europe des cours, xviie-xxe siècles
Among the court achievements of its time, Versailles quickly acquired the status of a myth, in other words a mental concept or image whose formation and diffusion should be studied as well as its concrete effects on the identity of other courts from ...
Gérard Sabatier
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Entre admiration et critique : Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach à Versailles (1715)
In 1715 the German Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach, descended from a prosperous Frankfurt family, undertook a four-year journey, the last months of which he spent in Paris, from 11 September 1715 to 11 April 1716.
Angela Göbel
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Vision philosophique pour l’usage du marbre dans l’architecture intérieure des palais français de style Louis XIV [PDF]
Luxe, rareté, beauté, étrangeté, lumière, brillance et éternité ont justifié l’emploi du marbre dans les grands décors du château de Versailles, siège du royaume français et instrument de pouvoir du roi Louis XIV.
Enas Hosny Ibrahim Anous Anous
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Aspects from the Activity of the League of Nations (1919- 1932). The Covenant of the League of Nations [PDF]
Finally we can say that the failures of the League of Nations were not due so much to the existance of a totalitarian power, but to the wish of the democratic states to keep the peace with any price.
Anca OLTEAN
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The unfinished Louvre: Common place as a mode of appropriation
In contemporary public culture, there is a stereotypical interpretation of the history of the Louvre Palace as multiple successive attempts to achieve a «Grand design» that dates back to the 16th century. However, this vision of the history of the Louvre
A. V. Stogova
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Versailles in England: Culture, Commerce and Diplomacy, from Charles II to Louis XVI
The English fascination for Versailles and the French court was reflected not only in numerous visits to the palace in France, but also in gardens, architecture, decoration and manners in England.
Philip Mansel
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La famille Jabłonowski à Versailles au xviiie siècle : impressions et inspirations
The aim of the essay is to examine the attitudes of Polish aristocrats towards Versailles, from their impressions upon discovering the place to the way they appropriated it in their daily lives and the functioning of their residences in Poland.
Katarzyna Kuras
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