Word: splendour
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Professor F. C. de Sumichrast last night gave the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles," discussing as his special subject "The Passing of the Splendour." The lecturer most interestingly the important political events leading up to the death of Louis XV, the moral deterioration of the court during that reign, and the complications responsible for the growing aversion to the innocent and once popular Marie Antoinette. The comparatively simple court life enforced during the last days of Louis XIV, was followed, said Professor Sumichrast, by a natural reaction. During the period of social pomposity and court revelries...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will give the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. His subject will be "The Passing of the Splendour...
...LECTURE. "Versailles,--the Passing of the Splendour," Professor de Sumichrast. (Illustrated). Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...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...