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The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi (French pronunciation: [məny pleziʁ dy ʁwa]) was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime, the department of the Maison du Roi responsible for the "lesser pleasures of the King", which meant in practice that it was in charge of all the preparations for ceremonies, events and festivities, down to the last detail of design and order.
Versailles around 1652, engraving by Jacques Gomboust []. In 1623, [5] [6] Louis XIII, king of France, built a hunting lodge on a hill in a favourite hunting ground, 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Paris, [7] and 16 kilometres (10 mi) from his primary residence, the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. [8]
The northern Ministers' Wing in the Cour d'Honneur at the Palace of Versailles (2011).. The Ministers' wings are outbuildings of the Palace of Versailles located in the Cour d'Honneur; the south wing now houses the Princes' bookshop and the ticket office, while the north wing is used to welcome groups of visitors.
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Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during ...
The King's Stables are located in Versailles, at 5 Carnot street, a few hundred meters from the Palace.Constituting the Royal Stables (an institution employing hundreds of people [1] at the time of Louis XIV's installation at Versailles), they were built in 1672.
The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports. Meanwhile, the select riders in the National Equestrian Academy who handle the palace's famed royal ...
Between 1680 and 1830, the Grande Écurie was also home to the École de Versailles (literal French for "the Versailles School"), the cradle of French learned horsemanship. [citation needed] Between 1793 and 1794, the emblem on the pediment was removed. [1] From 1854, the stables were occupied by the army. [3]