A Closer Look: Inside The Queen’s Quarters at the Palace of Versailles | Cultured Elegance
A Closer Look: Inside The Queen’s Quarters at the Palace of Versailles | Cultured Elegance
The queen's apartments at Versailles comprised several rooms, including a bedchamber, nobles' room, Royal table antechamber, guard room, gilded room, méridienne room, library, billiard room, water closet, and toilette room. Over time, each queen who inhabited these spaces personalized them to suit their preferences. The present look of these rooms predominantly mirrors the modifications carried out by the final occupant, Marie Antoinette.
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This video is absolutely and profoundly timely for me. I recognize this may sound quite pretentious; but, I am currently throwing myself into cultivating the interior decor of my recently purchased Home and I consider the private quarters of Marie Antoinette to be my PRIMARY decor inspiration. I am a young woman and Live alone. I do not have anyone else's decor preferences to consider or assimilate into my space. My Home can be as hyper-feminine and pretty as I can potentially render it. Ever since I studied abroad in Paris whilst in college years ago and made the trip out to the Palais Versailles, I felt inwardly determined to someday have my own Home featuring elements such as French Provincial furniture, gold mirrors, elegant fabrics and prints, and an adherence to the classic and unabashedly ornate. Thank you for making this video. It is detailed and thoroughly informative. 🖤
How fun, very happy for you!
Please give your local thrift shops a visit! You will find remarkable and perfect items! I did!
i think that's an excellent idea ( i hope you'll enjoy your new home ) ! ! !
Doesn't sound pretentious at all! If it's restful and inspiring to you that's all that matters
I love it and am absolutely here for it!!
I was a student in the early 70’s and was so disappointed when we visited the palace to find that they were empty rooms. It was still beautiful but they have since reproduced the furniture and I have been told that it now superb.
I visited Versailles in 2015 and it was breathtaking. My only disappointment was not being able to explore the gardens because it was raining heavily.
For the furniture it is not reproduction 😂😂 they buy when they have the opportunity the originals in auctions
This video couldn’t drop at a more perfect time. Just as my obsession with Marie Antoinette has reignited. I watched Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette a few days ago for the millionth time. So excited to watch this video tonight!
Versailles is truly an experience.
I was there a few years back, and I was overwhelmed by the amount of people everywhere, by the end I was trying to escape it, did not enjoy it. However, renting a golf cart and driving around the gardens proved to be the absolute highlight, would love to repeat the weirdness and pleasure of it.
Now I understand why Marie~Antoinette craved a simple country life and had the Petit Trianon built, probably to save her sanity from having to live under all that completely over the top opulence.
I love 18th century france; the source of the highest form of taste and exquisite furnishings- which most european monarchs emulated such style.
Beautiful, so nice this is all preserved for the world to see. THANK YOU.
Thank you for your video. I am traveling to Paris next Summer, I cannot wait to visit her apartments in Versailles and her quarters at the Petit Trianon.
Fabulous surroundings, but I don't know if living in such a fishbowl was so wonderful.
Heard they had to excavate the place of people so they can watch the palace out because it stinks so much of pee and poo
I’ve heard it was originally built to keep all the quarrelling nobility confined at the reach of the king, but it became a truly golden cage where the royal family was at the mercy of the monster they created.
I find it interesting that people have enjoyed watching others eat well before mukbang!
Gross 🤮
I do find it hard to balance all the beauty of the palace with the fact that people outside the gates were in poverty and starving. However, it's something we've always seen in history and still see today.
@@Bess9779 They got their revenge though and changed France forever.
I’ve been there it’s beautiful
thank you thank you. I'm such of a fan of anything french baroque
Incredible
Lovely, beautiful video.
Nicely done. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
I enjoyed every second of this!
Breathtaking beauty!
I loved the queen staircase when we toured we were told that they were 17 different colors of marble used
Too much differing types of marble made it look very oppressive.
What did they do when rulers could no longer walk all those stairs or when they were ill; or when the Queen was in a family way and in her "confinement?"
Absolutely beautiful, it's almost too beautiful, how could you not become bewitched living there to the point where your dreams trun into a delusional reality, which in the end leads to your death. I wonder if that memory of beauty followed them to jail, did the memory of those beautiful rooms and gardens give them some kind of escape or was it torturous to have those memories. I love the fall of empires and how they are usually the fault of their own demise.
C est la que vous vous trompez. L histoires est fausse
Why did they like paintings of Roman deities and why did they have false doors?
They had just discovered Pompey and were recovering Roman Statues which were inspiring them.
This was the Neo-classical time period, so everything Roman and Greek was their inspiration.
Cuz they all actually worship the devil/practice polytheism /pretty much ANYONE besides Jesus Christ……even though they “claimed” to do.
Being there to much to take in one day everything was beautiful a must to see if you in France.
What England did differently was work with the environment. The way the interior of a palace was designed had more to do with what was outside than what was in.
They're trying to escape reality, not capture the magic in it.
Me, a utility person living in the basement servants quarters of a chopped up Victorian mansion: o how interesting
I wonder how those chandeliers worked
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I wish France was a Monarch today. Its such a shame its not anymore.
So the tax paying, starving people of France should have just shut up instead of fighting for their lives and their families? What a foolish comment. Don't you know about the French revolution?
@@NoShelfControlyou obviously don’t. It was the middle class bourgeoise who pushed the revolution not the peasants
Tremendously KITCH. Just because something is expensive doesn't make it tasteful.
I really would like to go back to Paris. I had a lot of fun there when I went with the right person . I remember some things. I did not like when the fake ysa ward and married went and all their relatives at all those different people went. They seriously have a problem and followed me to everywhere formerly I went and wanted to go naturally . They are really nasty. I hope to have some good experiences with the right people from them which are really the older Mormon bishops and presidents that are white and other general authorities.
This is so sick,,,they live like this and people starving everywhere
Damn I’m poor
Baroque*
It's just too much over the top to the point of being ugly.As if they didn't know where to stop with the opulence they just threw everything in ! It defies good taste!
It makes me uncomfortable. There are too many vertical lines--the pattern on the wallpaper, the moldings beside the fireplace, etc. A bedroom is supposed to be restful but this one makes you feel like you must stand at attention. Maybe it was supposed to. I don't know.
I am looking for this comment😂 yep, I think the more is the better. I find it confusing like: where should I start to enjoy them😮
@@chocolatnoir1108 Your brain will get overloaded.
No comparison with England's any palace. Mankind cannot invent any greater architectures than those used in England. It's the last of modernity in architecture. Just like nobody can be Shakespeare, Aristotle, Plato anymore. They are the ends. In Versailles, walls have no place left without art. How can you live in a room inside which the four walls full of art and countless of colours gaze at you. See the St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Blenheim Palace, Windsor Castle, The great Westminster, British Museum, Oxford, Cambridge, Westminster Abbey and several more...
Thanks for mentioning those architectural works (l will revisit them)
How very arrogant and ignorant
@@JRNarian Power and prosperity lead to pride and arrogance
@@aquibhayat9075 not at all.
No fancy expensive art or color of the rooms could cover up the smells of feces urine etc🫣🫣😤😤
a bas le capitalisme!!!🚩🚩