Word: xv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born in Vienna in 1755, daughter of the great Empress Maria Theresa. She first skips into history as a little girl "playing at marriage" in the Schönbrunn Palace galleries with a little boy prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was only 14 when her mother and Louis XV sealed their Franco-Austrian alliance by giving her in marriage to the French Dauphin. "Has she any bosom?" asked the aging wolf Louis XV of the emissary who helped arrange the marriage. "Sire, I did not take the liberty of carrying my eyes so far," replied the courtier...
PLACE DE LA CONCORDE is the triumph of planning produced by a brilliant architect named Jacques Ange Gabriel for his royal client, Louis XV. What Gabriel succeeded in doing was creating a square without surrounding it on four sides with buildings. To accomplish this, he formed a unit by crossing the axis of the Champs-Elysées, leading to Versailles, with a secondary axis delineated by the Rue Royale, which leads to the classic Church of the Madeleine. He marked the boundaries with a moat, placed small buildings in each corner, set an equestrian statue of the King...
...result is the largest and in many ways the handsomest place in Paris. It is one of the ironies of history that this present from the Bourbon monarchs to the people of Paris ended in Bourbon tragedy. Within three decades its name had changed from Place Louis XV to Place de la Revolution. In it was set the guillotine that chopped off the heads of both Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie Antoinette...
...wreath, accepted gifts, saw sights, made pretty speeches, was dined and wined, received curtsies from some 3,400 ladies of France. In more private moments, she slept in Napoleon's bed, bathed in Empress Eugénie's bathtub, sat in an armchair used by Louis XV, and (according to the calculations of Frenchmen experienced in such calculations) found time to spend just 1½ hours out of the three-day visit alone with her husband...
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