Petit appartement de la reine

Plan of the petit appartement de la reine ca. 1740
Key to the plan of the petit appartement de la reine
1	escalier
2	service de la reine
3	valet du roi
4	passage
5	cabinet de la chaise
6	oratoire
7	petite galerie (cabinet des chinois ; laboratoire)
8	pièce des bains
9	grand cabinet intérieur
10	arrière cabinet
11	terrasse
12	escalier de la reine
A-F	grand appartement de la reine
a	ancien appartement de la marquise de Maintenon
b	appartement du roi
I	cour de Monseigneur
II	cour de Monsieur

Plan of the petit appartement de la reine ca. 1789
Key to the plan of the petit appartement de la reine
1	escalier
2	service de la reine
3	escalier à l’appartement de la reine au rez-de-chaussée
4	passage
5	cabinet de la chaise
6	cabinet de la Méridienne
7	bibliothèque
8	supplément de la bibliothèque
9	grand cabinet intérieur
10	arrière cabinet
11	pièce des bains
12	chambre des bains
13	antichambres
14	escalier de la reine
A-F	grand appartement de la reine
a	appartement du duc de Duras
b	appartement du roi
I	cour de Monseigneur
II	cour de Monsieur

The petit appartement de la reine (French: [pɛˈtit‿apaʁtəˈmɑ̃dəlaʁɛn]) is a suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles. These rooms, situated behind the grand appartement de la reine, and which now open onto two interior courtyards, were the private domain of the Queens of France, Maria Theresa of Spain, Marie Leszczyńska, and Marie-Antoinette as well as of the duchesse de Bourgogne as dauphine. The rooms in the petit appartement de la reine have been restored to the condition in which they were left when Marie-Antoinette left Versailles on 6 October 1789, and while the rooms are mostly Louis XVI style, some parts are Louis XV, or Rococo, like the fireplace mantel found in the supplément de la bibliothèque, or the center table in the cabinet de la Méridienne, as well as the mantel clock in the billard room.

At the completion of Le Vau’s enveloppe, Marie-Thérèse’s private area consisted of suite of five rooms that opened on the southern side of the cour de marbre and onto a small interior courtyard — at the time called the cour de la reine. In these rooms, Marie-Thérèse led her private and family life. Very little information survived about the décor or the arrangement of these rooms, owing largely to her early death in 1683 (Verlet 1985, p. 253).

The most significant modifications to the petit appartement de la reine were made after the marriage of Louis XIV's grandson, the duc de Bourgogne, with Princess Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy in 1697. Shortly after the marriage, in 1699, a suite of three rooms was constructed – known as the appartement de nuit du duc de Bourgogne (Verlet 1985, p. 210). These rooms were created for the conjugal visits of the young duc with his wife. Consisting of a bedroom, cabinet, and garde-robe, this part of the petit appartement de la reine when constructed in 1699 divided the cour de la reine into the cour de Monseigneur to the west and the cour de Monsieur to the east (Verlet 1985, p. 256). These rooms also communicated with the appartement du roi and formed part of petit appartement de la reine and were used by the princess until her death in 1712.

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