You're spot on about Marie-Antoinette wanting and needing an escape from "the big house." Even Louis XIV had enough of it by the end of his life. In his last summer, he spent six weeks at his much smaller chateau of Marly, returning to Versailles only to die...
You're spot on about Marie-Antoinette wanting and needing an escape from "the big house." Even Louis XIV had enough of it by the end of his life. In his last summer, he spent six weeks at his much smaller chateau of Marly, returning to Versailles only to die...