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A 17th-century valet de chambre. A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term "valet" by itself most often refers to a normal servant responsible for the clothes and personal belongings of an employer ...
Clothes valet, also called men's valet, valet stand and suit stand, is a piece of furniture to hang clothes on. Clothes are hung that are worn multiple times before laundering, such as a men's suit. Clothes are hung that are worn multiple times before laundering, such as a men's suit.
Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud. His father, Jean Baptiste Bontemps (1590–1659), had been surgeon to Louis XIII of France before becoming a Premier Valet in 1643. Alexandre succeeded him on his death in 1659, dying in office in 1701, by which time he was a count and marquis, holding several key offices controlling both the palaces and towns of Versailles and Marly, the Swiss Guard who guarded ...
It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that the most exciting things are far away, but these hotel tours may encourage you to look closer, to find wonder in the places you’d least expect.
Grooms ranked below Gentlemen of the Chamber, usually important noblemen, but above Yeomen of the Chamber. They were mostly well-born, on a first rung of a courtier 's career. The office of Groom of the Chamber could also be bestowed in a more honorific manner, upon people who served the royal household in some less direct way; the early Tudor ...
Spanning decades of Russian history from the confines of a hotel, “A Gentleman in Moscow” provides another strong TV showcase for Ewan McGregor, this time playing opposite his wife, Mary ...
Papal valets kneel during The Mass at Bolsena by Raphael, himself a Papal valet who may himself be here, looking at the viewer. In the English Royal Household the French term was used, whilst French was the language of the court, for example for Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1370s; but subsequently titles such as Groom of the Chamber, Groom of the Stool, and Groom of the Robes were used for people ...
Let's Be Happy (1957) as Hotel Valet; Happy Is the Bride (1958) as 2nd Magistrate; The Silent Enemy (1958) as Holford; The Spaniard's Curse (1958) as Frank Porter; Carry On Nurse (1959) as Henry Bray; The 39 Steps (1959) as Mr Pringle; I'm All Right Jack (1959) as Appointments Board Examiner; The Devil's Disciple (1959) as Mr. Brudenell