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The Menagerie of Versailles founded by Louis XIV, engraving by Pierre Aveline.

The Ménagerie royale de Versailles (literal French for "Royal Menagerie of Versailles") was Louis XIV's first major project at Versailles. It was built even before the creation of the Grand Canal. Its construction was entrusted to the architect Louis Le Vau, who began work in 1663. Abandoned during the French Revolution, it fell into ruin and no longer exists today.

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Royal Menagerie of Versailles

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The Ménagerie royale de Versailles (literal French for "Royal Menagerie of Versailles") was Louis XIV's first major project at Versailles. It was built...

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Menagerie

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throughout Europe, at Versailles, the site of a royal hunting lodge two hours (by carriage) west of Paris. Around 1661, he had a menagerie of "ferocious" beasts...

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Palace of Versailles

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The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ/ vair-SY, vur-SY; French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ) is a former royal residence commissioned...

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Subsidiary structures of the Palace of Versailles

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the Palace of Versailles have a historical relation with the history and evolution of the palace. Of these five structures – the Ménagerie, the Pavillon...

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Rhinoceros of Versailles

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The Rhinoceros of Versailles was a living Indian rhinoceros which was kept in the Palace of Versailles menagerie from 1770 until 1793. The live rhinoceros...

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Zoo

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the royal menagerie at Versailles, primarily for scientific research and education. The planning about a space for the conservation and observation of animals...

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Grand Canal of Versailles

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of Versailles is the largest basin in the park of the Palace of Versailles. Cross-shaped, it was built between 1667 and 1679, at the instigation of André...

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Jardin des plantes

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the ménagerie du Jardin des plantes, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the ménagerie royale de Versailles, the menagerie at...

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Serval

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time in the Royal Menagerie in Versailles; lobo-cerval is derived from Latin lupus cervarius, literally and respectively "wolf" and "of or pertaining...

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Grand appartement de la reine

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la reine is the Queen's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles. Forming a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi, the grand...

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Nicasius Bernaerts

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the Gobelins tapestry manufactory. In his paintings of the animals from the menagerie at Versailles, Bernaerts presented his subjects with a pedagogic...

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Coombe Abbey

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King Louis XIV's Royal Menagerie at the Palace of Versailles. In 1825 William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven succeeded to become the owner of Coombe Abbey. In...

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Royal Palace of Aranjuez

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kept in a menagerie as in Versalles, but grazed around or were employed as beasts of burden. Bulls and exotic animals were also used in the royal pastimes...

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Gerard Rijsbrack

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of the royal pack. In two paintings of dead game he made for the menagerie at the Palace of Versailles in 1751 (Louvre Museum, Paris), his manner of representation...

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Fresh pavilion

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Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the French Garden of the Petit Trianon, in the grounds of the Château de Versailles. Built between 1751 and 1753, this new building...

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Trianon de Porcelaine

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village of Trianon [fr] was situated to the northwest of Versailles. As Louis XIV developed the former hunting lodge at Versailles into a royal palace...

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Greta Scacchi

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Glass Menagerie as Amanda. Between 20 August and 12 November 2016, she played Phoebe Rice opposite Kenneth Branagh's Archie Rice in a revival of John Osborne's...

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Nymphenburg Palace

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royal palaces of Europe. Its frontal width of 632 m (2,073 ft) (north–south axis) even surpasses Versailles. The palace was commissioned by the electoral...

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Villa della Regina

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Ménagerie. Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, daughter in law of Anne Marie, did some work in the main saloon of the building when she became the owner of the...

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Paris Zoological Park

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Vincennes. Designed to complement the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes, this zoo is dedicated to the observation of animal behavior in a more suitable environment...

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