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Cardinal Mazarin
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State Apartment
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Venus Room ceiling
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Venus Room
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Venus room
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Diana Room Louis XIV Billiards rooms
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Billiards, Louis XIVs favorite game
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Diana Room
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Mars Room ceiling (during Louis XIVs
reign Filled with silver furniture)
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Apollo Room, Throne Room
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The Sun MythLouis XIV chose the sun as his
emblem. The sun was associated with Apollo, god
of peace and arts, and was also the heavenly body
which gave life to all things, regulating
everything as it rose and set. Like Apollo, the
warrior-king Louis XIV brought peace, was a
patron of the arts, and dispensed his bounty. The
regularity of his work habits and his ritual
risings and retirings (levee and couchee) were
another point of solar comparison. Throughout
Versailles, decoration combines images and
attributes of Apollo (laurel, lyre, tripod) with
the king's portraits and emblems (the double LL,
the royal crown, the sceptre and hand of
justice). The Apollo Salon is the main room of
the Grand Apartment because it was originally the
monarch's state chamber. The path of the sun is
also traced in the layout of the gardens.
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War Room or Council Room
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Kings Bedroom
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Levee
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Council Room
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King in Council
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Dog Room, where Louis XVs favorite dogs slept
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Gold Plate room
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Louis XVIs library
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Louis XVs dining room
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Louis sister-in-law wrote this about his
dining I have often seen the King eat four
plates of soup Of different kinds, a whole
pheasant, a partridge, A large plate of salad,
two thick slices of ham, a Dish of mutton in a
garlic-flavored sauce, a plateful Of pastries and
then fruit and hard-boiled eggs. Both The King
and Monsieur are exceedingly fond of Hardboiled
eggs.
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The Duc de Bourgogne(the Dauphines son) had his
two Brothers had been taught the polite
innovation of using a Fork while eating but when
they were invited to the Kings Table at supper,
he would havae none of it and forbade them To
use such a tool. He would never have had
occasion to Reproach me in that matter, for I
have never in my life used Anything to eat with
but my knife and my fingers
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Louis XVIs games room
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Chapel
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King hunting
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