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Compiègne
Sometimes people forget that Versailles wasn’t the only palace lived in by the French royal family before the Revolution and that in fact they moved between palaces depending on the time of year. One...
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The storming of the Tuileries, 10th August 1792
Today is the anniversary of the storming of the Tuileries Palace in 1792, which effectively ended the French monarchy and terminated any pretence that the royal family were not prisoners of the...
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The Palais Royal
The Palais Royal is one of my favourite spots in Paris – it is so serene and elegant and harmoniously proportioned that it is hard not to feel really calm and happy there. The sandstone colonnades are...
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The Storming of the Tuileries, 10th August 1792
Today is the anniversary of the storming of the Tuileries Palace in 1792, which effectively ended the French monarchy and terminated any pretence that the royal family were not prisoners of the...
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Versailles – Mad Men style?
Well, today’s most exciting bit of news (besides the fact that the Eiffel Tower thankfully was not blown up last night!) has got to be that the writers of Mad Men are now working on a twelve episode...
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A visit to Versailles
On this day, the 6th May 1682, Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles. To mark this momentous occasion and also that of my humble blog passing 400,000 page views (thank you!), I thought I would post...
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Exciting things to come!
I have a couple of exciting things coming up for this blog that I’d like to share with you! The cool thing to do, of course, would be to keep schtum and for it all to be a lovely surprise but I’m...
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