Sunday 25 August 2013

May

1.
Louis XV heads for the frontier in Flanders (1744)

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3.
Princesse Élisabeth – sister of Louis XVI – is born (1764)

4.
Death of the Duc de Berry (1713)

Louis XV asks Madame du Barry to leave court (1774)

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6.
The Court officially moves to Versailles (1682)

7.
Louis XIV's festivities "the Pleasures of the Enchanted Island" begins (1664)

Peter the Great visits Versailles (1717)

Madame de Pompadour is officially separated (1745)

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9.
Mazarin dies and Louis XIV reigns without a prime minister (1660)

Princesse Élisabeth is tried in front of the Revolutionary Tribunal (1794)

10.
Louis XV dies (1774)

Princesse Élisabeth is executed (1794)

11.
Madame Victoire – Mesdames Tantes -  is born (1733)

Fête at Petit Trianon in honour of Archduke Ferdinand, Marie Antoinette's brother (1786)

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13.
Louis XIII dies (1643)

Louis XIV's festivities "the Pleasures of the Enchanted Island" ends (1664)

14.
Queen Anne (mother of Louis XIV) annulls Louis XIII’s will and becomes regent (1643)

Marriage of the Comte de Provence to Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1771)

15.
Reception of ambassadors of Genoa – the first of its kind at the Hall of Mirrors (1685)

16.
Louis XIV performs the ritual of touching people with scrofula - he touched 3000 people (1698)

Marriage of Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste (1770)

17.
Louis XIV watches the Fountain of Neptune in action for the first time (1685)

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19.
Louis XIV visits the church of Les Invalides (1701)

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27.
Madame de Montespan dies (1707)
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31.
Empress Maria Theresia dies (1781)

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