So, here we are in the heart of Marie-Antoinette's hamlet. This long building with the round staircase used to be her house and snooker room. It was built by Richard Mique in 1783.---------------
Nous voici au coeur du hameau de Marie-Antoinette avec la maison de la reine et la maison du billard, construites par Richard Mique en 1783.
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Love your photo's and history. de toute beauté, merci!!!
Something about Marie-Antoinette playing snooker sounds very strange. No one plays snooker in the US. I see it on television when I am in the UK. It is only marginally better than watching a chess match.
Nice little cottage. Very pretty.
I love these shots! The colors are so vibrant. I think there are worse places a queen could hang out.
That is amazing. It's so un-what I would have expected. I'm glad you showed the outside staricase. This pavillion is quite a gem.
Well, I learned a new expression today. I've never heard of billiards referred to as 'snooker'. I like the round staircase and what it's attached to is pretty fine as well.
Boy, now I can see why she was so out of touch with her subjects.
Jolies photos sur cet endroit tres paisible. Peut etre un echappatoire pour la Reine et ses obligations mondaines.
Didn't know what snooker was until I read other comments. Beautiful staircase!
Beautiful colors, very saturated - nice. It is a "hamlet" isn't it? It's small (for her scale I'm sure) and again, quaint.
superbe cette maison, le style fait tres maison normande
Amazing place. Wonderful photos.
The building and grounds are so lovely, but I especially like the look of that sky overhead, sort of a juxtaposition of real life and fantasy life.
Beautiful place. I have seen the room that they say was her last place that she stayed in the Conciergere in Paris, where she was confined before she lost her head. What a difference that her earlier dwellings. I wonder how she looked back on her life of luxury while awaiting her fate.
This is such a beautiful picture!
And those stairs!
She had a snooker room??
I would not have expected Marie-Antoinette to have such a charming hamlet. The grounds are beautiful. Thanks for the series. MB
La dernière fois que j'ai vu l'endroit en vrai, c'etait dans un sale etat. Très belle restauration! par contre, avec le billard, j'apprends un truc! Moi qui associe toujours ça avec des mecs qui fument un cigare ou qui boivent des bières...:)
How lovely! It looks like a house just happened to grow in the garden :D
A Queen playing snooker? The place is so natural and at the same time gorgeous... with an amazing sky!
I would not imagine the Queen among this atmosphere of this game, mainly in that time!Very impressive!
Léia
So easy to see why she lived in a fantasy world
It's so easy to imagine her ascending and descending that staircase in her gown.
I haven't seen a snooker table in years. Would be fun to play a game with her.
@ all: billard or snooker was quite the thing, as was tennis (though of course it wasn't yet called tennis).
I did not know M.Antoinette played billiards. I am sure she had plenty of time on her hands to do so though. A beautiful photo of her little hamlet.
I enjoy seeing your photo of this. One of my favorite pictures of our trip to France is of my husband sitting on that bench at the foot of that winding staircase.
C'est vraiment coquet, et bien vert. Au printemps il y a un rosier superbe, un 'Veilchenblau' d'obtention allemande.
La photo du dessus est magnifique : la lumière après ou avant la pluie magnifie la maison de la reine...
Beautiful! I want to take a picture here. Or several pictures. :)
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