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Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project at first, the doctors thought it was sciatica, and then they admitted it was gangrene. The old man suffered greatly those last days, and then, on the 31st of august 1715, the clergy gathered around him, and they began, timidly, to chant the ave maria. All through the night, they carried on chanting. Then, at 8 15 in the morning in the royal bed in the Great Chamber in the center of the palace, louis xiv, the sun king, died, like every man. So wrote a contemporary diarist. Its often said that when louis died, an age died with him. The age of absolute monarchs, the age of which versailles is a symbol, was drawing to an end. Things would never be the same. For louis, versailles was intended first to be a garden, and he imagined that garden as an outdoor palace built next to the one constructed in stone, and the one could not be ....
He came back, once more, to meditate during the fateful 100 days before waterloo, and after that last catastrophic defeat, the english allowed him to return here, just once more, before his final exile to distant st. Helena. The house was empty then. His former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was, had died. She had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. Here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. For in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. For everywhere, artists were touched by his aura. Napoleons official architects, percier and fontaine, periodically had sent an illustrated newsletter of engravings to czar alexander showing the recent public works commissioned by napoleon. For after napoleon came to power, he planned to make paris into a ....
He came back once more, to meditate during the fateful 100 days before waterloo, and after that last catastrophic defeat, the english allowed him to return here just once more before his final exile to distant st. Helena. The house was empty then. His former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was had died. She had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. Here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. For in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. For everywhere artists were touched by his aura. Napoleons official architects percier and fontaine periodically had sent an illustrated newsletter of engravings to czar alexander showing the recent public works commissioned by napoleon. For after napoleon came to power, he planned to make paris into a capital ....
Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project at first, the doctors thought it was sciatica, and then they admitted it was gangrene. The old man suffered greatly those last days, and then, on the 31st of august 1715, the clergy gathered around him, and they began, timidly, to chant the ave maria. All through the night, they carried on chanting. Then, at 8 15 in the morning in the royal bed in the Great Chamber in the center of the palace, louis xiv, the sun king, died, like every man. So wrote a contemporary diarist. Its often said that when louis died, an age died with him. The age of absolute monarchs, the age of which versailles is a symbol, was drawing to an end. Things would never be the same. For louis, versailles was intended first to be a garden, and he imagined that garden as an outdoor palace built next to the one constructed in stone, and the one could not be ....
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