Versailles, des grands aux petits appartements de la reine

Voici une vieille carte postale.
Est-ce que c`est le cabinet doré ?
Est-ce que quelqu`un pourrait dire c`est dans quelle année date cette carte postale ?


Fleurdelys

Je n'en connais pas l'année mais oui, c'est bien le Cabinet Doré, sans aucun doute.

Une visite qui rappellera de bons souvenirs à beaucoup d'entre nous...   



Robert Polidori photo


As you must all know by now, I am in love with Versailles. It is grand, luxurious, over~the~top, and impressive to say the least. Strolling through the Grand Salons and the apartments of the Queen and King are awe inspiring but what interests me the most are the private apartments. To try to get a glimpse of the way they lived on a day to day basis, to see what life was really like, that to me is riveting! So, here is a small post on the private apartments of the last Queen of France, Marie~Antoinette.



Meridienne room ~ I love these chairs ~ Photos via Flickr


The petit appartement de la reine is a suite of rooms situated behind the grand appartement de la reine, and open onto two interior courtyards, this was the private domain of the Queens of France, Marie-Thérèse, Maria Leszczyńska, and Marie-Antoinette. The rooms in the petit appartement de la reine have been restored to the state that they left when Marie-Antoinette left Versailles in October 1789.



http://reproductions.chapitre.com/repro/ROUSSEAU-FRERES/PROJET-DE-BOISERIES-POUR-LE-CABINET-DE-LA-MERIDIENNE.html


These several small rooms, which were built in the reign of Louis XV and then redecorated in a delicate neoclassical style for Marie Antoinette, consist of an antechamber, a salon where she sat for her Vigee-Lebrun portrait, a library, a bathroom (which had hot and cold running water and one of the few flush toilets in the palace) and an octagonal boudoir.


In these private apartments, Marie Antoinette and her friends enjoyed some happy times as they gossiped, sewed or listened to music away from the rigid etiquette and crowds of the public rooms. The rooms are small, and the ceilings more modest. The furniture, paneling and wall hangings reflect a more delicate taste in fact, the Queen's own taste.





The above photos are of her Meridienne room. Here the Queen loved to lounge with her closest friends. Each day she would be brought books containing drawings of all of her dresses and other garments. She would indicate her preferences for the day by inserting a pin into the page that depicted the dress she wanted to wear. Later, baskets lined in satin would arrive with her selections. During the restoration of this room in the 1980s, the flooring was removed and a number of these pins were found. Apparently, pins had either been dropped or had fallen out of the books.
An eerie Legend has it that a young Marie~Antoinette rose from a nap on this bed and in the mirrored alcove thought she saw herself headless and shrieked with horror. I don't know if this story is true or not but it's easy to see that it could have happened looking at the way the mirrors are seamed in the photo.



Her "secret" door



A view of the door open ~ That small door on the left leads down to her private bath


These rooms are so interesting and play such a large part in the way her history was played out. You can see her famous escape route for yourself: cut into the rear wall near the bed, is a partly concealed door.
She most famously fled through here in the early days of the Revolution (October, 1789), as the mob entered the guardroom a few rooms away and massacred two of her guards.



The hallway in her private apartment


But before those final days at the palace, the little door was a portal to another life. Through here is a treasure trove of private rooms and passageways: to the king's rooms, her private chambers, her children's rooms, and the attic rooms where the favorites had been housed in the past. Oh! How I would die to just be allowed to roam these areas! What a dream that would be.



The walls all depict the "water" theme


The bathroom is, I believe on the ground floor. The Queen had to go through her "secret" door in her room, then directly to the left of that open door is another very narrow door (the doors are so close together that they will hit each other if one is not careful), then proceed down a stone, narrow stairway to reach this gem. Hardly the environment one envisions the queen stirring about in. They very much look like the servants passages.



Not the staircase to the bathroom but her private staircase from her library leading to the family dining room (for those public meals she so hated).



The private bathroom of the Queen of France


The bath in the bathroom is gone, but a raised rim in the black-and-white tiled floor shows where it would have been, it looks very tiny. Marie~Antoinette is said to have taken two baths per day and did so in a muslin chemise (so as to not let her delicate skin touch the metal of the bath). She was very chic in that she was very clean, not a widely followed trend in this day. The only other objects in the room are a bed, a pair of the queen’s "scented" gloves and her travel chest. But what a chest it is, a hefty leather chest with jars, brushes, and vials.





Although this is not the original bed from the bathroom it would have been in a bed similar to this one that Marie~Antoinette would have been massaged daily. She had installed an "English Bathroom" or in other words a toilet that flushed (one of, or the only one in the residence) and also had hot and cold running water.



A view of the bathroom
http://parisatelier.blogspot.be/2009/01/best-part.html

Thank you so much for this visit!   

Oh que oui! Ces appartements ainsi que ceux des dauphins/dauphines sont ce qu'il y a de mieux à visiter dans le château même de Versailles   
Mais c'est dommage qu'il soit si compliqué de tomber à la bonne tranche horaire des visites guidées et que le château ne diffuse pas à l'avance les programmes....

Bonjour,

Je voudrais partager avec vous un site qui publie de très belles photos des appartements privés de la Reine.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ganymede2009/4120321898/in/set-72157630041975922

madame antoine

Bonjour,

Encore de belles photos des appartements de la Reine.
http://tatianastearoom.blogspot.be/2009/08/marie-antoinettes-private-apartments.html

madame antoine

Très belle série de photos sur les appartements de la reine à Versailles et à Trianon. J'épingle celle-ci, du cabinet doré restauré:





Mais toutes valent le détour...     http://spenceralley.blogspot.be/2013_06_01_archive.html

Une jolie photo des appartements privés:



http://www.lalibre.be/light/societe/l-intimite-de-marie-antoinette-et-la-petite-pepite-belge-5399b1893570d60b4dc62eb1

D'autres photos ici, mais hélas minuscules...   Enfin... Il y a tout de même un reportage:
http://momento.blogs.lalibre.be/archive/2014/06/14/l-intimite-de-marie-antoinette-et-sa-touche-belge-1131643.html

Très belles photos des grands appartements ici:
http://noisette16000.eklablog.com/versailles-5-a108276952#header

Belle photo de la bibliothèque, ou plutôt du supplément de bibliothèque (voir plus haut dans ce sujet ):



http://www.pinterest.com/pin/40039884162351030/

Fersen logeait a Versailles dans les petites chambres pour ambassadeurs dont vue :



Ici explications françaises : http://suite101.fr/article/axel-de-fersen-le-bien-aime-de-la-reine-marie-antoinette-a28839

La Page Facebook du Château de Versailles nous propose quelques vues des Petits Appartements de la Reine Marie-Antoinette.


© EPV / Thomas Garnier


© EPV / Thomas Garnier


© EPV / Thomas Garnier


© EPV / Thomas Garnier


© EPV / Thomas Garnier


© EPV / Thomas Garnier

https://www.facebook.com/chateauversailles

madame antoine

Pour une autre belle visite, suivez le guide!
http://www.hellocoton.fr/to/1fXuC#http://www.kahwamonamour.fr/2015/10/01/marie-antoinette-une-vie-intime-a-la-cour-de-versailles/

Escalier menant des Petits Appartements à la chambre de la Reine :

Quelques belles photos des petits appartements de Marie-Antoinette  

La bibliothèque au 1er étage


Le supplément de la bibliothèque


Le cabinet doré. Remarquez le bureau de Riesener et les sièges de Jacob


Le cabinet de la méridienne


La salle à manger, avec les pièces du Sèvres riche en couleurs et riche en or


La salle du billard


La salle de bain au rez avec le lit à la polonaise de Louis XVI

C'est incroyable, on s'y croirait presque. Merci le beau lauzun !

La cinquième photo nous montre que notre chère Antoinette aimait d'un amour sincère sa mère, Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, pour avoir affiché un tableau de cette dernière en plein cœur de la salle à manger

Oui, Marie-Antoinette aimait sa mère, avec néanmoins un savant mélange de crainte et de respect je dirais

Oui, vous avez raison. Elle ne pouvait pas tout lui dire non plus, craignant que la foudre (sa mère) se rabatte sur elle. En tout cas, sa célèbre formulation "Madame ma très chère mère" me fera toujours autant rêver

Dans les petits appartements de la Reine, les armoires aux porcelaines








https://versaillespassion.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/appartement-prive-de-marie-antoinette-1er-etage-aile-centrale/

levengeur a écrit:

https://maria-antonia.forumactif.com/t7948-programme-des-amis-de-versailles#330954

Quelle bonne nouvelle!

La restauration suit son cours et selon Hélène Delalex, conservateur du patrimoine au musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, la réouverture est prévue pour le 20 juin.

Les corps de métier concernés s'activent.


Hélène Delalex


Hélène Delalex

https://www.instagram.com/helenedelalex/?hl=fr
https://www.chateauversailles.fr/actualites/vie-domaine/restauration-petits-cabinets-reine

Nous espérons que les délais seront respectés.

Merci Souvenir des Appartements de mon Âme