Visitors to Versailles : from Louis XIV to the French revolution / edited by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Bertrand Rondot.

• Introduction -- Incomparable Versailles / Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Bertrand Rondot -- Going to Versailles / Mathieu da Vinha -- Exchanging Looks: Codes of Dress at Versailles / Pascale Gorguet-Ballesteros -- Special Embassies and Overseas Visitors / Meredith Martin -- "Presents du Roy": Official Gifts from the French Court / Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset -- Incognito in Versailles: Or, How Not to Travel as a King / Volker Barth -- Grand Tourists: Noble Visitors to the Court of the French King / Jean Boutier -- Visitors' Guidebooks and Engravings / Elisabeth Maisonnier --The Americans / Paul Staiti -- Notes to the Essays -- Works in the Exhibition.

• Based on contemporary documents and works of art, the book explores the experiences of visitors to the palace and grounds of Versailles when it was the seat of the French monarchy, methods of transportation, codes of dress and etiquette, precious diplomatic gifts, royal audiences, and tours of the buildings and gardens. 

Ämnesord

Hovdamer  (sao)

Hovmän  (sao)

Hovliv  (sao)

Kungsgårdar  (sao)

Visitors, Foreign  -- France -- Versailles -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Visitors, Foreign  -- France -- Versailles -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Ladies-in-waiting  (LCSH)

Courts and courtiers  (LCSH)

Courts and courtiers  (LCSH)

Versailles (France)  -- Court and courtiers -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Frankrike 

1700-talet  (sao)

1600-talet  (sao)

Personnamn

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Versailles -- Exhibitions.

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions.

Ludvig XIV, kung av Frankrike, 1638-1715

Institutionsnamn

Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions.

Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.

Versailles (slott)

Klassifikation

DC801.V57 (LCC)

944/.03 (DDC)

Kj (kssb/8 (machine generated))