Recently, a gentleman from our readers was wondering in a comment what was hidden behind the imposing doors of a beautifully restored room of the palace. Today, we are too happy to oblige and offer this gentleman a peep through one of these doors. Lo and behold! The open leaves reveal yet another room, much more smaller, in which the wood panelling (boiseries) and the fireplace have just been reinstalled today.
Here is a closer look at the fireplace, a rare example of a Louis XV style fireplace still adorning a courtier's apartments anywhere in the palace.
On a secondary note, if you're used to the royal apartments of Versailles, you may be surprised to notice that not all mirrors in Versailles came with a gilded frame! Walls of secondary rooms in courtiers' apartments and mirror frames were usually simply painted white as you see in these photographs. Welcome to the world of the simple courtier!
Is it not very often that we get to see those little rooms.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't indeed, Madame la Duchesse! And this for a simple reason : those rooms are often in use, as they were intended to be!, as a private room or an office of some sort by the occupants of the palace. But if you're well connected, I'm sure you may be able to visit any room you wish within Versailles. As always, all is a question of knowing the right people!
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