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    Nov 07, 2019 2 minutes

    The Queen’s Bedchamber

    he sumptuous Queen’s Apartments were created for Louis XIV’s first wife Marie Thérèse, who moved into them in 1682, just a year before her death, which took place in the bedchamber. Although he was fond of his wife, who was also his first cousin, Louis was

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