Versailles and the court under Louis XIV (1905) (14763874054)

Identifier: versaillescourtu00farm (find matches)

Title: Versailles and the court under Louis XIV

Year: 1905 (1900s)

Authors: Farmer, James Eugene, 1867-1915

Subjects: Versailles (France) -- Description France -- Court and courtiers

Publisher: New York, The Century co.

Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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e, so that the carriages could approach with-out confusion. From Notre Dame the king went to the Hotelde Ville, where they gave him a magnificent dinner; therewere fifty-five covers. All the princes of the blood, thekings children, and the ladies who accompanied him, dinedwith the king. The prevot des marchands served the king attable; his wife served Mme. la Dauphine. Never beforehad the king dined at the Hotel de Ville. The people ofParis displayed the greatest joy at seeing the king. All theshops were closed; fountains of wine ran, and there were il-luminations at night. On leaving the Hotel de Ville, theking went to the Place des Victoires, where he alighted fromhis carriage, and examined the statue erected by M. de laFeuillade.1 Then he drove to the Tuileries. Mme. la Dau- 1 M. de la Feuillade was an ar- king prohibited this, remarking that rant sycophant. He surrounded lamps of that sort should be only this statue with lamps which he in churches,wished to burn all night. The 416

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The Court and Paris phine accompanied him, and from the balcony threw moneyto the people. In 1701 Louis XIV was at Paris on three occasions. Onthe 19th of May of that year he visited the church of LesInvalides; on the 14th of July he returned to inspect the es-tablishment ; and on the 20th of July he went to Notre Dameto see the model of the altar which he wished to erect there.In 1702 he made the stations of the jubilee in Paris on the6th and 7th of April; and in 1706 he heard mass in thechurch of Les Invalides, on the 28th of August, and gavegreat and well-merited praise to Mansart. Monseigneur went frequently to Paris, to the Opera and tothe fair of St. Germain. Monseigneur had, I know nothow, says Saint-Simon, much endeared himself to thecommon people of Paris, and this sentiment soon gained theprovinces. In 1701, when Monseigneur had an attack ofapoplexy from which he came near dying, the fish-women ofParis sent a deputation to congratulate him on his convales-cence. He was at Ve

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