A Closer Look: Inside The Queen’s Quarters at the Palace of Versailles | Cultured Elegance

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  • 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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Komentáře • 92

  • @AvecPoesie
    @AvecPoesie Před 2 měsíci +147

    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. 🖤

    • @lovelysybarite3009
      @lovelysybarite3009 Před 2 měsíci +9

      How fun, very happy for you!

    • @kimberlypatton205
      @kimberlypatton205 Před 2 měsíci +12

      Please give your local thrift shops a visit! You will find remarkable and perfect items! I did!

    • @axlheck1516
      @axlheck1516 Před 2 měsíci +7

      i think that's an excellent idea ( i hope you'll enjoy your new home ) ! ! !

    • @catsncrows
      @catsncrows Před 2 měsíci +6

      Doesn't sound pretentious at all! If it's restful and inspiring to you that's all that matters

    • @sarahmartin7181
      @sarahmartin7181 Před 2 měsíci +6

      I love it and am absolutely here for it!!

  • @lindecarr1982
    @lindecarr1982 Před 2 měsíci +30

    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.

    • @linpollitt8950
      @linpollitt8950 Před měsícem +1

      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.

    • @ErickHumboldt
      @ErickHumboldt Před 26 dny +3

      For the furniture it is not reproduction 😂😂 they buy when they have the opportunity the originals in auctions

  • @HM-xi5zi
    @HM-xi5zi Před 2 měsíci +33

    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!

  • @rathertiredofthemess2841
    @rathertiredofthemess2841 Před měsícem +9

    Versailles is truly an experience.

    • @SuperMarkizas
      @SuperMarkizas Před měsícem +1

      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.

  • @breznevolaso4090
    @breznevolaso4090 Před 2 měsíci +12

    I love 18th century france; the source of the highest form of taste and exquisite furnishings- which most european monarchs emulated such style.

  • @verenamaharajah6082
    @verenamaharajah6082 Před měsícem +19

    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.

    • @olavwilhelm6843
      @olavwilhelm6843 Před 2 dny

      The petit Trianon was build for Madame dePompadour 1762 and not for Marie Antoinette

    • @verenamaharajah6082
      @verenamaharajah6082 Před dnem

      @@olavwilhelm6843 I have not been able to find any information supporting your statement. However, I was referring to the Queens Hamlet that she had built on the Petit Trianon estate which was given to her by her husband the King. As the Hamlet is under the umbrella of the title Petition Trianon, I’ve found that’s what most people call it.

  • @jamesparciak9765
    @jamesparciak9765 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Beautiful, so nice this is all preserved for the world to see. THANK YOU.

  • @EIbereth
    @EIbereth Před 2 měsíci +6

    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.

  • @nextwave1314
    @nextwave1314 Před 2 měsíci +22

    Fabulous surroundings, but I don't know if living in such a fishbowl was so wonderful.

    • @paigecat9104
      @paigecat9104 Před měsícem

      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

    • @Vacartu
      @Vacartu Před měsícem

      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.

  • @joywetzel4640
    @joywetzel4640 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Incredible

  • @lynnfox2359
    @lynnfox2359 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Lovely, beautiful video.

  • @informed1436
    @informed1436 Před měsícem +3

    I’ve been there it’s beautiful

  • @RebeccaEWebber
    @RebeccaEWebber Před 2 měsíci +15

    I find it interesting that people have enjoyed watching others eat well before mukbang!

    • @katejones969
      @katejones969 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Gross 🤮

    • @Bess9779
      @Bess9779 Před měsícem +4

      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.

    • @linpollitt8950
      @linpollitt8950 Před měsícem +5

      @@Bess9779 They got their revenge though and changed France forever.

  • @vaughangarrick
    @vaughangarrick Před 2 měsíci +8

    thank you thank you. I'm such of a fan of anything french baroque

  • @ericmoore571
    @ericmoore571 Před 2 měsíci

    I enjoyed every second of this!

  • @omaeve
    @omaeve Před 2 měsíci +3

    I loved the queen staircase when we toured we were told that they were 17 different colors of marble used

    • @edmurks236
      @edmurks236 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Too much differing types of marble made it look very oppressive.

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 Před měsícem

    Breathtaking beauty!

  • @wordscapes5690
    @wordscapes5690 Před měsícem +2

    Nicely done. Thank you.

  • @goldappleberry
    @goldappleberry Před 2 měsíci +8

    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.

    • @user-cy7zh2ng3g
      @user-cy7zh2ng3g Před 2 měsíci

      C est la que vous vous trompez.
      L histoires est fausse

    • @triciamills309
      @triciamills309 Před dnem

      Beautifully written, I can't imagine living in such splendor and fantasy then in an instant losing everything, including their lives. Absolute Monarchies always crash and burn at some point.

  • @gilbertforest6518
    @gilbertforest6518 Před 19 dny

    Avec mes remerciements en compagnie de ma profonde gratitude infiniment

  • @johannabezuidenhout4252
    @johannabezuidenhout4252 Před měsícem

    Being there to much to take in one day everything was beautiful a must to see if you in France.

  • @Chillitz
    @Chillitz Před 2 měsíci +8

    Why did they like paintings of Roman deities and why did they have false doors?

    • @aliceputt3133
      @aliceputt3133 Před 2 měsíci +4

      They had just discovered Pompey and were recovering Roman Statues which were inspiring them.

    • @JRNarian
      @JRNarian Před měsícem +4

      This was the Neo-classical time period, so everything Roman and Greek was their inspiration.

    • @alieganhouse2442
      @alieganhouse2442 Před měsícem

      Cuz they all actually worship the devil/practice polytheism /pretty much ANYONE besides Jesus Christ……even though they “claimed” to do.

    • @leighhancock1393
      @leighhancock1393 Před 3 dny

      Rome and Egypt were some of the greatest empires in history. And many rulers copied their Practices .Art and Architecture. Even here in the US we have an obelisk which is clearly Egyptian in our nation’s capital.

  • @brendahenderson683
    @brendahenderson683 Před měsícem +3

    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?"

    • @triciamills309
      @triciamills309 Před dnem

      In England, when King Henry VIII could no longer walk due to his obesity and infected leg, he was either carried everywhere by servants in a litter or by Katherine Parr's marriage to him he had an early version of a wheelchair he was pushed around the palace in.

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @quinishaharley
    @quinishaharley Před 4 dny

    Question why where the chairs are they have mirrors ?

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 Před měsícem +1

    They're trying to escape reality, not capture the magic in it.

  • @taniatanoa
    @taniatanoa Před měsícem

    I wonder how those chandeliers worked

  • @phoeberaymond8781
    @phoeberaymond8781 Před měsícem

    Me, a utility person living in the basement servants quarters of a chopped up Victorian mansion: o how interesting

  • @guldenaydin9918
    @guldenaydin9918 Před 2 měsíci +4

    🌹

  • @wcfheadshots240
    @wcfheadshots240 Před 4 dny

    How did these survive the French Revolution?

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před měsícem +4

    I wish France was a Monarch today.
    Its such a shame its not anymore.

    • @NoShelfControl
      @NoShelfControl Před měsícem

      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?

    • @BlowinFree
      @BlowinFree Před měsícem +2

      @@NoShelfControlyou obviously don’t. It was the middle class bourgeoise who pushed the revolution not the peasants

  • @sivam33j5
    @sivam33j5 Před měsícem +2

    This is so sick,,,they live like this and people starving everywhere

  • @npcperson2158
    @npcperson2158 Před měsícem +2

    Tremendously KITCH. Just because something is expensive doesn't make it tasteful.

  • @monicabeal8733
    @monicabeal8733 Před 2 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @AaronAardvark
    @AaronAardvark Před měsícem

    Damn I’m poor

  • @edmurks236
    @edmurks236 Před 2 měsíci +5

    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!

    • @evelynzlon9492
      @evelynzlon9492 Před 2 měsíci +3

      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.

    • @chocolatnoir1108
      @chocolatnoir1108 Před měsícem

      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😮

    • @edmurks236
      @edmurks236 Před měsícem +1

      @@chocolatnoir1108 Your brain will get overloaded.

  • @aquibhayat9075
    @aquibhayat9075 Před 2 měsíci +2

    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...

    • @JB-pd3ir
      @JB-pd3ir Před měsícem

      Thanks for mentioning those architectural works (l will revisit them)

    • @JRNarian
      @JRNarian Před měsícem +1

      How very arrogant and ignorant

    • @aquibhayat9075
      @aquibhayat9075 Před měsícem +1

      @@JRNarian Power and prosperity lead to pride and arrogance

    • @miraheil5521
      @miraheil5521 Před měsícem

      @@aquibhayat9075 not at all.

  • @user-hk6wk3iw8y
    @user-hk6wk3iw8y Před měsícem +3

    No fancy expensive art or color of the rooms could cover up the smells of feces urine etc🫣🫣😤😤

  • @user-nx2ci1gv7o
    @user-nx2ci1gv7o Před měsícem +2

    a bas le capitalisme!!!🚩🚩