Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURE. "Versailles,--the State ceremonials and the Court Festivals," Professor de Sumichrast. (Illustrated). Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...lecturer began by describing the royal residences in Paris at the opening of the reign of Louis XIV, dwelling more particularly on the Louvre, then in a state of transition, and wholly insufficient for the needs of the king and his ever-growing court. He pointed out that the palace of Versailles, as it exists at the present day, is the outcome of successive transformations and additions, the first royal residence on the site having been the hunting-lodge erected by Louis XIII. This was added to by his son, who used it for a similar purpose...
...Monday, at the same hour and place, Professor de Sumichrast will take up the origin and history of the French court at Versailles, paying particular attention to the King and his household...
...Versailles," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject tonight will be "The Palace of the Great King." The dates and subjects of the other three lectures are as follows: January 9, "The Household of the King"; January 11, "The State Ceremonials and the Court Festivals"; January 13, "The Passing of the Splendour...
...first lecture Professor de Sumichrast will give a history of the creation of the palace and gardens and the transformations which they have undergone, and in the second lecture will describe the French court, its origin, and the position of the king. The third lecture will deal with the more important receptions and entertainments that have been held at Versailles, and in the last lecture the closing scenes of the monarchy, enacted at Versailles at the beginning of the French Revolution, will be discussed...