Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Palace of Versailles: touch the French artistic soul.

A recent visit to Palace of Versailles, let me once again to experience theFranceThe "not reliable" -- an appointment in advance a good senior librarian interviews for me to do some official explanation, but the day before the interview, he suddenly lost contact, then I was "regret to inform", he is on holiday...... The Frenchman is such, I am afraid that in addition to the end of the world, nothing can stop them enjoy the pace of life.

However, diffuse to loose, once encountered and artistic matters -- anything, the French creativity, seriously the matter and the pursuit of perfection, people have to praise. Palace of Versailles is a very good example.

Palace of VersaillesPalace of Versailles

Guardian of the petit Trianon palace of Shamir

In order to ensure visitors visit and orderly, each palace of Palace of Versailles was guarded, Shamir is one of them "palm door person". He is not tall, curly hair, like smiling, he spent 3 years on Palace of Versailles, now in charge of the petit Trianon palace. "Work here never dull. We often work location, because everyone has the equal right to work in different places. Every day I went to Versailles at eight thirty, eight forty-five open the doors of the palace, and then I have 15 minutes, open the window, open the huge curtain, let palace is bright to meet a group of tourists to the earliest." Shamir believes that the moment the most beautiful day in Palace of Versailles is the morning, visitors have not yet come in great numbers, a person walking in the huge palace, footsteps echoed in the corridor, like a hundred years ago who hurried to an audience with the king, nobles like get up.

The petit Trianon PalaceThe petit Trianon Palace

The petit Trianon palace is the area of Versailles Palace in a minimum, but also the most beautiful one. The palace was originally built for Louis Jugo and his last wife Mrs. Pon Pa Toure, then Louis sixteen to his wife Mary Antoinette (Marie-Antoinette). The famous French last empress has lived here for 15 years, the palace is a record of her private life.

Shamir did not explain to me those gorgeous statues and gorgeous painting, but to take me to a general pattern of wooden cabinet. "After the French Revolution, all the palaces have been sold, repaired in 2009 when, it is a complex and time-consuming project. We must find the lost items and repurchase, detailed record but the newspaper helped -- there are those items. In this wooden showcase, we found a broken seal, sign above is combined with Mary Antoinette's initials M and A, peripheral also has other text. On the other side of the cabinet has a 'CT' mark, said this is for the petit Trianon Palace (French name is Le Petit Trianon) custom. A lot of things this palace, this is one from folk to find back."

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