#12 – Tour the palace in Compiègne. Accomplished!
FINALLY!!!! After only 7 months of living here, I toured the palace in Compiègne yesterday!!! It was beautiful, sunny and high-60s, and there were TONS of people in the gardens, but not too too many in the palace itself. I thought the tour was really informational and when we were done, all I wanted to do was run home and read-up on my French history!
I didn’t take many pictures outside, because not much is flowering yet, but I took LOADS of the palace!!
Enjoy!
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- On our walk to the palace, there were horse-drawn carriages! I’m not sure why, but it added a nice ambiance.
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- Really awesome yellow chair.
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- And another!
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- This is part of a marble table.
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- Napoleon’s bedchamber!
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- Ceiling art.
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- Napoleon’s library (that’s his desk!)
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- Creepy hallway.
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- The Empress’s bedchamber
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- Painting on the ceiling of the Empress’s room.
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- Paintings represent spring and summer.
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- And these represent fall and winter.
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- The ladies in waiting room! The seating arrangement was decided by pecking order.
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- Some of the art on the walls was really impressive!
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- The carpet in the empress’s dining room. Really, Marie-Louise?
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- Art on the ceiling of the blue room.
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- I WANT THIS CLOCK!
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- Louis XV would have portraits painted of his preferred pooches. :)
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- This entire room was full of tapestries depicting Louis XV in/around the forest/palace of Compiègne.
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- The ballroom.
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- Napoleon
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- A really neat painting of Napoleon going into battle.
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- Birds! Painted on doors!
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- Napoleon III
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- The imperial prince.
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- The prince’s mother, Eugenie
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- Some of the prince’s clothes, when he was little.
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- Napoleon III
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- Napoleon III and the imperial prince.
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- Bust of… the imperial prince, I think..
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- And another bust of the prince, after his death.
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- Painting depicting the prince’s death.
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- Empress Eugenie
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- Passage leading to the gardens!
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- View of the palace from the edge of the gardens.
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- The palace!
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- There was this great wall-hanging – it was like a quilt of France. I couldn’t get a good picture of all of it because it was under glass, but this is the region I live in.
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- Imagine if this were your entryway staircase.
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- Painting of the palace, in the palace.
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- Napoleon’s dining room
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- Marble (?) carving in the wall of the dining room.
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- Really cool chalice
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- The map room
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- A game room.
