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Versailles
VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents, decorated pastedowns. Ex Library with stamps/labels, etc
228 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1970
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April 29, 2015
Strangely enough, I much more enjoyed this, Mr. Dunlop's biography of the Château de Versailles & its gardens, than I did his biography of its last queen, Marie-Antoinette. Mr. Dunlop expertly evokes the centuries of its planning & (seemingly never ending) building (as well as those other off-shoot satellite Châteaux, namely Marly, Clagny, Fontainebleau, the Petit & Grand Trianons & a few others) & the elaborate customs & gilded rituals that informed & dictated the (Courtly) etiquette of those who passed through them.
An eloquent & evocative work that elucidates some of the lives who once played a role - significant or otherwise - on the magnificent stage that was Versailles; excellent in every way.
An eloquent & evocative work that elucidates some of the lives who once played a role - significant or otherwise - on the magnificent stage that was Versailles; excellent in every way.
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