Chateau de Versailles

[lovingvixen]

This place is amazing, loved it!



[skylur44]

Mozart played at Versailles when he was just 5 years old, and upon finishing, he stood up and walked away then fell down; Marie Antoinette went and helped him up saying "Oh, poor little Mozart!"

[TheAmericanEvita]

@skylur44  Mozart did play at Versailles but Marie Antoinette was not with him in that occasion. She herself was about 5 or 6 yrs old herself. She was living in Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, where Mozart played a concert for Marie's family her mother Maria Teresa and her brothers and sisters. Mozart slipped and she helped him. He then said to her "will you marry me "? Mozart's trip to Versailles was during the reign of Louis the 15th and Marie Antoinette had not yet grown up.

[Taurus2May]

I wish I could play the piano.

[MrDoublehappy]

its not a chateau any more its a palais - its started out as a chateau a hunting lodge .... see?

[TheGiraffeShit]

@MrDoublehappy : In France they call it Chateau de Versailles, not Palais de Versailles.

... See? (:

[MrDoublehappy]

@TheGiraffeShit ....oh my mistake .... quite right. You have to admit it did start as a lodge and over time became a palace. It is not commonly referred to as a chateau in English historical texts but their in lies the mistake, what the locals call it must then prevail, and thank goodness for wikipedia. :) see?

[charylene211]

Do you think that choir sections are strange in a church? Or that children's areas in a fitness center are strange? Just organization is what it is about so that things are not in a mess with crowd control methods.

[darlingelf]

They had all kinds of bizarre rules and etiquette in Versailles. Only the king and his closest circle could use a certain door or gate, for instance. There were fierce battles about seating among the courtiers. Everything was so ritualised that one wonders how people managed.

[pieisevil92]

i think i read that some courtiers, when they wanted to see the king they had to scratch (with their smallest finger) the door, how strange?

[darlingelf]

Yes, I read about that too. Although I think they scratched doors as a rule, they didn't knock at all. I guess they considered knocking vulgar :-)

Now that I think about it, they probably didn't go scratching at the kings door when they needed to talk to him, there was a more complicated routine for that. You had to get an audience, an official permit to see him. So everything was very formal. But you could whisper in the king's ear when he was walking to the chapel in the morning.

[darlingelf]

And usually they didn't need to whisper many words. If they wanted to be invited to his next visit to Marly (King Louis XIV's smaller pleasure palace and garden), they just approached him and said "Marly, sire?" And the king would say something like "We'll see" in reply.

[danishpride1]

I stop in the line for like an hour and then I came in it was either half of it closed or dissapointing piece of crap..

[butterflyac1636]

beautiful! love the music!

[annetta76]

Lovely place,I've been there,too.

[luckymenyc]

what is the music in the background? Is that Mozart?

[bellrich]

Sorry, but I got it from Adobe software which does not Identify it. I beleave it is Mozart.

[billstandley32]

Yes, Mozart ... Piano Sonata in C, K545 Allegro

BillRich ... Thanks for the video ... would love to visit!

[Taurus2May]

@billstandley32

Thanks. I knew it was Mozart, but I couldn't remember exactly, what was the name of the music.