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Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs (French pronunciation: [ɡʁup pjɛʁ e vakɑ̃s sɑ̃tœʁ paʁk]) specializes in tourism services, providing holiday and entertainment villages, leisure activity residences and hotels under the brands Pierre & Vacances, Maeva, Center Parcs, [3] Sunparks, and Adagio (the last in partnership with Accor).
LeVau’s original plan for the grand appartement du roi was short-lived. With the inauguration of the third building campaign (1678–1684), which suppressed the terrace linking the king and queen’s apartments and the salons of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus for the construction of the Hall of Mirrors, the configuration of the grand appartement du roi was altered.
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.
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 ...
The Château de Marly painted by Pierre-Denis Martin in 1724. The Château de Marly (French pronunciation: [ʃato də maʁli]) was a French royal residence located in what is now Marly-le-Roi, the commune on the northern edge of the royal park. This was situated west of the palace and garden complex at Versailles.
Marly-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [maʁli lə ʁwa] ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the administrative region of Île-de-France, France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris , 18.4 km (11.4 mi) from the centre of Paris .
The village of fishers and farmers turned to tourism at the end of the 19th century, with the extension of the Nîmes Aigues-Mortes railway line in 1909: [8] bathers arrived en masse, and on the 26 April 1924 the French President of the Republic decreed that Le Grau-du-Roi was a "station climatique et balnéaire" (beach resort town). The rail ...
Villeneuve-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [vilnœv lə ʁwa] ⓘ) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 13.7 km (8.5 mi) from the centre of Paris . The early 19th-century French orientalist Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1780–1831) was born in Villeneuve-le-Roi on the boat that arrived from Auxerre .