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Louis XIV Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 King of France (more...) Reign 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 Coronation 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral Predecessor Louis XIII Successor Louis XV Regent Anne of Austria (1643–1651) Chief ministers See list Cardinal Mazarin (1643–1661) Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1661–1683) The Marquis of Louvois (1683–1691) Born (1638-09-05) 5 September 1638 ...
The gardens remained largely unchanged from the time of Louis XIV; the completion of the Bassin de Neptune between 1738 and 1741 was the most important legacy Louis XV made to the gardens. [ 45 ] Towards the end of his reign, Louis XV, under the advice of Ange-Jacques Gabriel , began to remodel the courtyard façades of the palace.
Louis XIV had hunted at Versailles in the 1650s, [15] [18] but did not take any special interest in Versailles until 1661. [27] On 17 August 1661, [28] Louis XIV was a guest at a sumptuous festival hosted by Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances, at his palatial residence, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
The Hall of Mirrors (French: Grande Galerie, Galerie des Glaces, Galerie de Louis XIV) is a grand Baroque style gallery and one of the most emblematic rooms in the royal Palace of Versailles near Paris, France. The grandiose ensemble of the hall and its adjoining salons was intended to illustrate the power of the absolutist monarch Louis XIV.
His son Louis XIII had no intention of continuing construction. Indeed, work did not resume until after the end of the Fronde rebellion in 1653. Between 1659 and 1661, King Louis XIV and Cardinal Mazarin had First Royal Architect Louis Le Vau enlarge the palace, extending it to the north with the addition of the Théâtre des Tuileries. [5]
The second period, from 1660 to about 1690, was the beginning of the personal reign of Louis XIV; much of the furniture of this period was made for the decoration of the grand new halls of the Palace of Versailles designed by Louis Le Vau and then by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. The characteristics of the first style in decoration and furniture were ...
The first such complex of buildings built under Louis XIV was the Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) (1662–1668), facing the Louvre. It was designed by Louis Le Vau and François d'Orbay, and combined the new college donated by Cardinal Mazarin, a chapel, and the library of Mazarin.
The Ménagerie royale de Versailles (literal French for "Royal Menagerie of Versailles") was Louis XIV's first major project at Versailles. It was built even before the creation of the Grand Canal. Its construction was entrusted to the architect Louis Le Vau, who began work in 1663.