Trianon and the Queen's Hamlet at Versailles: A Private Royal Retreat
Author Jacques Moulin, Contributions by Yves Carlier, Photographs by Francis Hammond
- Publish Date: November 12, 2019
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Architecture - Buildings - Landmarks & Monuments
- Publisher: Flammarion
- Trim Size: 9-5/8 x 12
- Pages: 304
- US Price: $85.00
- CDN Price: $115.00
- ISBN: 978-2-08-020410-3
Reviews
“Almost by definition, the Trianons of Versailles are a sub plot – always the junior partner to the great palace at the other end of the garden – the ancien regime version of the garden shed, or the weekend getaway; but they have also long spun myths all of their own – from the orientalising luxuries of the first royal mistress to inhabit them, Mme de Montespan, to the vanities of Marie Antoinette and, a century later, her admirer the Empress Eugenie.
This beautifully produced book, exclusively focussed on the Trianons, brings those stories centre stage, but it also offers a treasury of scholarly information, setting these legends in the context of how the buildings, gardens and furnishings were designed and made. A longitudinal study, it affords fascinating insights into the ways in which each new Trianon built upon, and transformed, its predecessor, enabling the reader to trace in the building we encounter today, fragments of the original ‘porcelain’ palace, and beneath that, the long-disappeared village that gives both the place, and the very idea of a Trianon, its name.”
—Ed Hollis, Acting Dean for Research, College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of Interior Design, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland