Les Tuileries

a former royal palace in Paris: begun by Catherine de Médicis in 1564; burned by supporters of the Commune in 1871. The gardens that formed part of the palace grounds remain as a public park Les Tuileries Carrousel of 1662 on the eastern side of the Tuileries.

Tuileries Garden toward the west in 1680, Perelle, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (RMN) Tuileries Garden: hexagonal pool, horse-shoe ramp, Champs-Elysées in 1680. Perelle, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (RMN) Positions 1sr-5th Fourth in ballet Champs Élysées

a boulevard in Paris, France, noted for its cafés, shops, and theaters. Louvre

a national museum in Paris, France, since 1793: formerly a royal palace.

The Louvre is the world’s largest museum and houses one of the most impressive art collections in history. The magnificent, baroque-style palace and museum — LeMusée du Louvre in French — sits along the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It is one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions. Poitiers a city in and the capital of Vienne, in W France: Roman ruins; battles a.d. 507, 732, 1356. a film or incrustation, usually green, Patina[puh-tee-nuh] produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value. Cannes[kan]

a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean Sea: resort; annual film festival. Pont Neuf

The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. Translates to “new bridge” The Palais Royal (Place Royale) Delphic stare Sphinx creature

Delphi was inhabited since Mycenaean times (14th - 11th c. B.C.) by small settlements who were dedicated to the Mother Earth deity. The worship of Apollo as the god of light, harmony, and a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the order was established between the 11th and 9th centuries. Slowly body of a lion and a human head. In Greek over the next five centuries the sanctuary grew in size and tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, importance. During the 8th c. B.C. Delphi became internationally sometimes with the wings of a great bird, and known for the Oracular powers of Pythia--the priestess who sat on the face of a human. It is mythicised as a tripod, inhaled ethylene gasses, and muttered incomprehensible treacherous and merciless. words that foretold the future. Ermine coat That lox Sable might be today’s uncontested king of luxury furs, but historically, ermine was the status quo fur for royalty, and the most sought-after fur for court presentations and official portraiture. Ermine, as it turns out, became linked with Western European courts due to a symbolic legend stating that an ermine would “rather die than be defiled/soiled”, as translated from the Latin, “potius mori quam foedari”. Hence its representation of royal “moral purity.”

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Alabaster Plate Pomegranates Louis XIII king of France from 1610 to 1643

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/348935/Louis- XIII Louis XIII, The eldest son of King Henry IV and Marie de Médicis, Louis succeeded to the throne upon the assassination of his father in May 1610. The queen mother was regent until Louis came of age in 1614, but she continued to govern for three years thereafter. As part of her policy of allying France with Spain, she arranged the marriage (November 1615) between Louis and Anne of Austria, daughter of the Spanish king Philip III. By 1617 the king, resentful at being excluded from power, had taken as his favourite the ambitious Charles d’Albert de Luynes, who soon became the dominant figure in the government. Louis exiled his mother to Blois, and in 1619–20 she raised two unsuccessful rebellions. Although Richelieu (not yet a cardinal), her principal adviser, reconciled her to Louis in August 1620, the relationship between the king and his mother remained one of thinly disguised hostility. Anne declared sole regent to Louis XIV after Louis’s death in 1643 Versailles France

Before the sixteenth century, the land around Versailles was prime hunting territory. On becoming king, Louis XIII often returned to hunt in Versailles. In 1623, he built, at the top of a small hill, a simple pavilion, or hunting lodge, made of brick, stone and capped by a slate roof. Louis XIII transformed and enlarged this first castle (the Château des Cartes) from 1631 to 1634. Philibert le Roy undertook work on the first true château and widened the building, rebuilt the wings and added four houses. While work was in progress, Louis XIII acquired new lands. He intended to retire to Versailles as soon as the Dauphin reached his majority, but the king's premature death in 1643 prevented him from fulfilling his wish.

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France, Louis XIV (1643-1715) Pyrenees Range of mountains in southwest Europe, natual border between France and Spain • Prussia Cruller