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1715 - #LouisXIV has heard the Prayer for the Dying, the Ave Maria and the Credo pic.twitter.com/PlGhJANOx5
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 31, 2015
1715 - The Princesse de Conti, the King's daughter, is inconsolable #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/HSQLXGrv90
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 31, 2015
1715 - Doctors and courtiers are leaving. Only few people stay with #LouisXIV pic.twitter.com/pmAvBlvDTB
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 31, 2015
1715 - 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, 2015
1715 - #LouisXIV is gradually losing consciousness, moments of lucidity are becoming brief pic.twitter.com/YtPWND4bFg
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 31, 2015
The four official organists for the royal chapel organ Michel Bouvard, Francois Espinasse, Frederic Desenclos and Jean-Baptiste Robin will be playing on 1st September 2015 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of Louis XIV.
1715 - At the request of #LouisXIV, Madame de Maintenon has gone to Saint-Cyr "never to return" pic.twitter.com/QgT2v7Qx5m
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 30, 2015
Louis XIV had a difficult summer. Updates you may have missed about the King!
1715 - Last night, the doctors noticed that the gangrene has spread to #LouisXIV’s foot and knee pic.twitter.com/N2m47TpBeV
— ChateaudeVersailles (@CVersailles) August 30, 2015
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The death of Louis XIV in 1715 revealed the role of intimacy played by his Valets de Chambre.
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