Versailles by Colin Jones

Author:Colin Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

* See Chapter 5 (here).

* Historians’ accounts of the timing of these morning events differ. It seems that the king either went to Mass early or later in the morning and fitted his council meetings around this. See, for example, Béatrix Saule, Versailles triomphant: une journée de Louis XIV (Paris, 1996), here, here; and Antoine Amarger et al., The Hall of Mirrors: History and Restoration (Dijon, 2007), here.

* See Appendix 2, pp. here.

* Noblesse d’épée (nobles of the sword) denotes the oldest class of French nobility, descended from the knightly class of the medieval era, who owed service to the king in exchange for ownership of landed estates; noblesse de robe (‘nobles of the robe) refers to those nobles who owed their advancement to holding legal or administrative positions.

† Historians’ estimates on numbers vary, sometimes quite wildly. I have followed Matthieu da Vinha, an authoritative source, who suggests 7,000 logeants: see his Le Versailles de Louis XIV, here. It is even more difficult to estimate servant numbers. See also here.

* See Appendix 4, here.

* The Swiss guard was originally created as personal bodyguard by Louis XI in 1480.

* See Chapter 3 (here).

† See Appendix 5, here.

* The Edict of Nantes, signed in 1598 by Henri IV, had granted a number of civil rights to France’s Calvinist Protestants (or Huguenots).

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