Relive the last days of #LouisXIV in 30 Tweets #BestOf
On August 12, 1715, Fagon, the Royal Doctor, has made his diagnosis: sciatica #LouisXIV. pic.twitter.com/fDfCpIpC5o
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 12, 20151715 - #LouisXIV receives the Persian ambassador for a long time. The King seems exhausted. #StateVisit pic.twitter.com/F18U5yHEuA
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 13, 20151715 - #LouisXIV has given orders to carry him to Madame de Maintenon’s apartments. Maybe for the last time? pic.twitter.com/JnARuqYppp
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 19, 20151715 - Georges Mareschal, the Royal Surgeon, has noticed a black spot on the king’s foot #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/nHAvF0cXeE
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 21, 20151715 - #LouisXIV asks for the Father Le Tellier. The King wants to confess. pic.twitter.com/mXnRnEQH1Z
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 24, 20151715 The Princess Palatine has declared "The King’s illness has me so worried that my heart is trembling" #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/Jgi9zErr33
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 24, 20151715 #LouisXIV slept better last night than he has done recently. The Gazette published an optimistic medical report pic.twitter.com/c1kNq3QMe5
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 24, 20151715 - The gangrene is spreading, #LouisXIV is in a critical condition pic.twitter.com/nyblZIzhmS
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 25, 20151715 - As the news of Louis XIV’s last rites spread, crowds began to gather in the streets of Versailles #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/VX8kCypBte
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 25, 20151715 - 26 August, the doctors are bandaging #LouisXIV’s leg & the surgeon has made several incisions pic.twitter.com/Ppi1qjG2QG
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 26, 2015All post are halted throughout the kingdom & The Parlement de Paris orders public prayers to be said for #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/O3ps24OsNu
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 26, 2015According to the order of #succession it’s young Louis XV, great-grandson of #LouisXIV, who will inherit the #throne pic.twitter.com/bTJTQcl54G
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 26, 20151715 - #Urgent #LouisXIV summons Louis XV, just 5 years old, to his bedside
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 26, 20151715 - #Latestnews #LouisXIV beseeches Louis XV to be a peaceful king "I have been too fond of war..." pic.twitter.com/a9ZGjwz0F8
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 26, 20151715 - Comte de Pontchartrain, Secretary of State for the Royal Household and Paris, has been summoned #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/CmcPeSnBKH
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 27, 20151715 - 28 August, The King spent a very restless night, #LouisXIV is getting weaker and weaker pic.twitter.com/HvttvNxTKP
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 28, 20151715 - #LouisXIV addresses his tearful manservants: "Did you think I was immortal? I never thought so myself." pic.twitter.com/skeZ1mKjYu
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 28, 20151715 - The Brun's special elixir : the Court wants to believe to a miracle but #LouisXIV remains very weak pic.twitter.com/MzsnNB77YR
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 28, 20151715 - This morning, #LouisXIV attended Mass in his bedroom pic.twitter.com/kjU55AUbji
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 29, 20151715 - At the request of #LouisXIV, Madame de Maintenon has gone to Saint-Cyr "never to return" pic.twitter.com/QgT2v7Qx5m
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 30, 20151715 - The Royal Surgeon, Mareschal, finds the king’s leg to be "marbled with black” up to the thigh #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/nPfb91wL3a
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 31, 20151715 - The Princesse de Conti, the King's daughter, is inconsolable #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/HSQLXGrv90
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 31, 20151715 - #BreakingNews #LouisXIV passed away #LeRoiestMort pic.twitter.com/AyAG51e47D
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) September 1, 20151715 - #LeRoiEstMort The King’s valets have closed his eyelids and changed his shirt. #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/eLE3TuSdHo
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) September 1, 20151715 - The autopsy of the King has begun #LeRoiEstMort #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/aGL2xZVq9j
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) September 2, 2015#OnThisDay in 1638 #LouisXIV was born #HappyBirthday ♚
Poke @CVersailles
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— Musée du Louvre (@MuseeLouvre) September 5, 20151715 - 9 September, #LouisXIV's coffin is brought to the Royal courtyard for the departure of the funeral cortege pic.twitter.com/IbkFeHzSt5
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) September 9, 20151715 - The funeral cortege of #LouisXIV left Versailles, look at the journey #LeRoiEstMort https://t.co/SM2o4m8qn2 pic.twitter.com/FtH1hD2oN1
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) September 9, 20151715 - #Urgent King Louis XV leaves Versailles to settle in the Palace of Vincennes #LouisXIV #LeRoiEstMort pic.twitter.com/NwjsqE8uAc
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) September 9, 2015"The King Who Invented Ballet"... Louis XIV @cversailles pic.twitter.com/HG0Z4Tail1
— Bham Royal Ballet (@BRB) September 13, 2015
