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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 ...
A-F. Grand appartement du roi. The petit appartement du roi (French: [pɛtit‿apaʁtmɑ̃ dy ʁwa]) of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. Located on the first floor of the palace, the rooms are found in the oldest part of the palace dating from the reign of Louis XIII.
Levee (ceremony) A Levée underway in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, 1903. King Edward VII is seated on the throne, the Royal Company of Archers stand guard. The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") [1] was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader, as he got up in the morning.
The museum is situated on the north side of the square, opposite Brussels' Town Hall, in the Maison du Roi ("King's House") or Broodhuis ("Bread House" or "Bread Hall"). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This building, erected between 1504 and 1536, was rebuilt in the 19th century in its current neo-Gothic style by the architect Victor Jamaer [ fr ] .
B. Cour royale. The appartement du roi or King's Apartment[1] is the suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles that served as the living quarters of Louis XIV. Overlooking the Marble Court (cour de marbre), these rooms are situated in the oldest part of the chateau in rooms originally designated for use by the queen in Louis XIII 's chateau.
The Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries were designed by the young architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, who determined to sweep away a warren of ill-lit alleyways between the Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt and the Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères / Warmoesberg and replace a sordid space where the bourgeoisie scarcely ventured into with a covered shopping arcade more than 200 m (660 ft) in ...
Baudouin (left) and his brother Albert, c.1940. Prince Baudouin was born on 7 September 1930 at the Château of Stuyvenberg in Laeken, northern Brussels, the elder son and second child of Prince Leopold, then Duke of Brabant, and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden. In 1934, Baudouin's grandfather King Albert I of Belgium was killed in a ...
Marie-Louise O'Murphy (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁi.lwiz ɔ‿.myʁ.fi]; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814), also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy, La Belle Morphise, Louise Morfi or Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly, was the youngest lesser mistress (petites maîtresses) of King Louis XV of France, and the model for François Boucher's painting The Blonde Odalisque, also known as ...