Louis-Philippe and Versailles

October 6, 2018 February 3, 2019 Exhibition has ended

On 6 October 1789, when Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the royal family were forced to leave Versailles, the Château was deserted and definitively ceased to be a royal residence. Heir to the Orléans family, Louis-Philippe has little common history with the Versailles of the Ancien Régime but shows his interest in the palace as soon as he acceded to the throne in 1830. The new king of the French is committed to transforming this monarchical building into a national monument dedicated "to all the ...
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On the occasion of the Carrousel Festival in 1662, Louis XIV chose the sun for his emblem.
The sun was Apollo, god of Peace and the Arts; it was also the heavenly body giving life to all things, the embodiment of regularity, which rises and sets each day. Like the Sun God, Louis XIV, the warrior hero, brought peace to his people; he protected the arts and dispensed all the graces. Through the regularity of his work, his public levers and couchers (morning rising and evening retiring ceremonies), he insisted on the resemblance, carved in stone: the decor of Versailles was filled with the depictions and attributes of the god (laurels, lyre, tripod) on all the royal portraits and emblems.

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