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They have names Harvard Wharton and StanfordWe must now turn the crisis into opportunityThe banks believe Charlie McCreevy the factNight visionAt night almost all cats are greyFinally service cars have been surrenderedKashagan is taken in ice 4 to 5 months of the yearUnnecessary thus to solicit all azimuthsA wonderful starting point for this Odyssey KrugProbably another arm of railway rates and discountsIt is easy to mock the concept of young entrepreneursIt definitely always something happening at Versailles: ceremonies equestrian night Bartabas, the invasion of the Castle by the dog sausage and other spectacular parts of Jeff Koons, it barely has time to blow that already another event profile. This one, surely, should reassure the proponents of the tradition, since it relates to the restoration of the heritage: October 2, the Petit Trianon or Castle of Marie-Antoinette , entirely delivered, will reopen its doors to the public. More than a facelift, a resurrection, result of a year of work funded through the patronage of the Breguet company. A gesture more of EUR 5 million, also royal than fiction. Watchmaker of the Queen at the tragic fate, the company, two hundred years later, worked to replicate the model of his pocket watch, when Versailles was the terrible storm of 1999. A cataclysm that had oak right says "of Marie-Antoinette". Authorized to use the wood to build the setting of the watch, Breguet discovered while the Petit Trianon requires treatment of shock. Never mind... it save the castle of the Queen!
Today Jean-Jacques Aillagon, President of the public establishment of Versailles, is delighted that what constitutes "one of the most beautiful jewels in the Crown of Versailles" found its brightness. Because the elegant square building built by Gabriel, the architect of Louis XV, between 1762 and 1768 for the Pompadour, it will be finally inhabited by Du Barry before offered by Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette offered so far in the visit that few mostly on the first floor rooms. The castle is now open, restored with care and refurnished with original and period furniture (more a few bright copies). October 5, 1789, in a small fine rain, Marie-Antoinette meditates in the grotto built in the gardens of his estate. A valet just get to announce that the people are at the gates of the Castle and claims of bread. She hurriedly left the petit Trianon. It back more. It is the castle that comes to the Queen that the restaurant wanted to return, says Pierre Arrizoli-Clémentel, Director of public institution.
Nothing of "bling-bling".
The first shock is architectural. We had forgotten the harmony and false simplicity of the building, with its parts sous-baissées to accommodate a mezzanine between the first and the second floor and its intriguing small corridors. Also forgotten the large Windows of the noble floors (get rid of their small tiles by Marie-Antoinette) that offer opportunities to breathtaking gardens and the French flag (restored him also). The second shock was the sobriety of the decoration. Little or no gilding in parts before all designed for privacy and comfort. Fabrics, wallpapers and flower tinctures, spikes, or the walls simply painted in grey furniture steal without impress. Nothing of "bling-bling", looks like today, in this campaign Castle, where rulers abandoned any protocol.
The ground floor, reserved for the domestic offers to look blond stone or its almost bare parts. The first floor of the apartments of the Queen offers known wonders as the portrait "in the pink" Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun or the Office of the moving ice, allowing the sovereign to isolate themselves completely from the outside. The mezzanine surprises unpublished (such as the small reconstituted library). The second floor of the apartments of the King (Louis XV, and Louis XVI, which, in reality, did it never sleep) invites to exceed the century, with the women who long after the revolution have inhabited (Empress Marie-Louise, the Duchess of Orléans).
The Petit Trianon will mostly visit in small groups (station floors almost all of the time). Should arm themselves for patience. The first days of his gracious resurrection may be busy.
