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LE LOUVRE, PALAIS DES MUSES Il est question de faire un Muséum aux galeries du Louvre ; il est décrété, et, comme ministre de l'Intérieur, j'en suis l'ordonnateur et le surveillant. [ ] Ce Muséum doit etre le développement des grandes richesses que possede la nation en dessins, peintures,...

Versailles is known throughout the worlcl as the largest and most sumptuous palace cvcr Imiit. In the mind of the visitor unfamiliar with the twists and turns of the history of Francé, the names of Louis XIV and Marié Antoinclte are jumbM up togetlier, and the other kings, queens and pincés who...

THE LOUVRE, PALACE OF THE MUSES «It is a matter of making a Museum out of the galleries of the Louvre; it is decided and, as Interior Minister, I am the organiser and supervisor of the project. [ ] This Museum is to be an expansion of the great wealth which the nation possesses in drawings,...

VERSAILLES, SEAT OF THE ANCIENT MONARCHY Although Louis XIII had a hunting-lodge and garden built there in the 1630s, Louis XIV was mainly responsible for the creation of Versailles. Not too close to Paris, where insurgency was a constant threat, but not too far away, the site had great...

Versailles klingt durch die Well als der Xanie des größten und prächtigsten Schlosses, das je von einem Herrscher gebaut wurde. In der \or-stellung des oft nicht ganz mit den Gegebenheiten der französischen Gesciiichte vertrauten Besuchers werden manchmal die Namen Ludwigs XH'. tmd...

A RAILWAY STATION, A MUSEUM At the end of last century, the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer d'Orléans purchased a piece of land on which stood the ruins of two buildings that had been burnt down during the Commune insurrection in 1871, namely the cavalry barracls and the Palais d'Orsay former seat...

I,!' I, , ¦ I iNTRODUaiON Versailles is known throughout the world as the largest and most sumptuous palace ever built. In die mind of the visitor mifamiliar with the twists and turns of die lustorj' of France, the names of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette are jumbled up together, and...