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Zampieri. Châteaux de
Versailles et de Trianon (© Photo RMN/Daniel Arnaudet).
Miniature portrait of Madame de Maintenon, c. 1694, by Jean Boinard. Private
Collection.
Visite de Louis XIV à Saint-Cyr en 1704 , engraving by Lalaisse after F. Lemud.
Archives départementales des Yvelines, Montigny-le-Bretonneux (fonds ancien de la
Bibliothèque ).
The Château of Maintenon; view through the Aquaduct, mid-eighteenth century, by
François Edme Ricois. Château de Maintenon (photo: The Art Archive/Dagli
Orti).
Apartments of Madame de Maintenon. Château de Maintenon (photo. The Art
Archive/Dagli Orti).
Marie-Jeanne d'Aumale, date and artist unknown. Private Collection.
The Family of the Grand Dauphin , 1687, by Pierre Mignard. Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (© Photo RMN/Gérard Blot & Christian Jean).
Betrothal party of Philippe, Duc d'Orléans and Henriette-Anne, depicted on
a fan, c. 1661. Collection: Sylvain Levy-Alban.
Henriette-Anne of England, Duchesse d'Orléans, 17th century French School.
Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (© Photo: RMN/Gérard Blot).
The Family of Louis XIV, 1670, by Jean Nocret. Châteaux de Versailles et de
Trianon (© Photo RMN).
Henriette-Anne represented as Minerva, 1664, by Antoine Mathieu. Châteaux
de Versailles et de Trianon (© Photo: RMN/Gérard Blot & Christian Jean).
Henriette-Anne, Duchesse d'Orléans, at her toilette, depicted on a fan from
the 1660s. Collection: Sylvain Lévy Alban.
Philippe de France, Duc d'Orléans, with a portrait of his daughter Marie-
Louise d'Orléans, date unknown, by Pierre Mignard. Châteaux de Versailles
et de Trianon (© Photo RMN).
Élisabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1678, by Nicolas de
Largillière. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy (photo: AKG).
Élisabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1713, by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Châteaux de
Versailles et de Trianon (photo: Giraudon/ Bridgeman Art Library).
Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Queen of Spain, 17th century French School.
Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (photo: Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library).
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Princesse de Conti, 1690-1, by François de Troy.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (photo: Bernard Delorme).
Françoise-Marie de Bourbon and Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, date
unknown, by Claude-François Vignon. Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
(© Photo: RMN/Gérard Blot).
Louise-Bénédicte de Bourbon, Duchesse du Maine, c. 1690-1700, by Henri
Bonnart. Musée de l'Île de France, Sceaux (photo: Pascal Lemaître).
Mary of Modena, c. 1680, by Simon Peeterz Verelst. Yale Center for British Art,
Paul Mellon Fund (photo: Bridgeman Art Library).
Miniature painting of Mary of Modena, c. 1677, by Peter Cross. Fitzwilliam
Museum, University of Cambridge (photo: Bridgeman Art Library).
The Family of James VII and II, 1694, by Pierre Mignard. The Royal Collection
© 2006 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Sèvres vase depicting a party given by Louis XIV in 1689 at the Château of
Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Musée Condé, Chantilly (photo: Giraudon/ Bridgeman
Art Library).
Letter from Adelaide Duchesse de Bourgogne to her grandmother. State
Archives of Turin.
Adelaide Duchesse de Bourgogne, 17th century French School. Galleria
Sabauda, Turin (photo: Alinari/ Bridgeman Art Library).
Adelaide Duchesse de Bourgogne, in hunting-costume, 1704, by Pierre
Gobert. Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (© Photo RMN/Daniel Arnaudet &
Gérard Blot).
The Marriage of Adelaide of Savoy and Louis, Duc de Bourgogne, 1697, by Antoine
Dieu. Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (© Photo RMN/Daniel Arnaudet &
Gérard Blot).
Perspective View of the Château, Gardens and Park of Versailles seen from the Avenue
de Paris, 1668, by Pierre Patel. Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (photo:
Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library).
Construction of the château of Versailles , c. 1679, after Adam Frans van der
Meulen. The Royal Collection © 2006 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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