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River façade of the Pavillon du Roi (1576), engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. The Pavillon du Roi (French pronunciation: [pavijɔ̃ dy ʁwa]) was a tower-like structure built in the mid-16th century at the southern end of the Lescot Wing of the Louvre Palace. On its main floor (piano nobile) was the primary apartment of the king of ...
Vérité et écriture(s), Paris, Champion, 2005 (avec une édition critique du Livre de la Genèse de la Bible Historiale mentionnant les emprunts à Comestor et les citations de la Glossa) « L'utilisation du pont dans la théologie chrétienne médiévale », Les Ponts au Moyen Âge, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2005.
The director general was assisted by the first architect to the King (premier architecte du Roi) and the first painter to the King (premier peintre du Roi), a staff of inspectors, architects and several hundred workmen. [4] Much of the work was left to the director's first lieutenants, such as Robert de Cotte and Gilles-Marie Oppenord.
Under the Ancien Régime, the First Architect to the King (French: Premier Architecte du Roi, pronounced [pʁəmje aʁʃitɛktə dy ʁwa]) was the direct assistant to the general director of the building industries, arts and manufactures of France and, consequently, number 2 of the Bâtiments du Roi, forming part of the Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi.
The count-dukes sometimes administered justice in the great hall. It was there that Hugues de Lusignan, comte de la Marche, publicly challenged Louis IX on Christmas Day, 1241. After the province of Poitou was reattached to the royal domain, la salle des pas perdus was renamed la salle du Roi ("the royal hall").
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV.
La Chambre du Roi (French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃bʁ dy ʁwa]), "the king's bedchamber"), has always been the central feature of the king's apartment in traditional French palace design [1] Ceremonies surrounding the daily life of the king — such as the levée (the ceremonial raising and dressing of the king held in the morning) and the coucher (the ceremonial undressing and putting to bed ...
The Maison du Roi civile, or domestic entourage of the king, was divided into a number of departments, whose number varied over the years. Under Louis XIV it consisted of 22 departments. Each department was directed by the grands officiers de la maison du roi de France (a title similar to, but not the same as, grand officier de la couronne de ...