Few figures of France’s Ancien Régime are as enigmatic and divisive as the Marquise de Maintenon. She has been portrayed as ...

1. The Persian embassy extraordinary (19 February to 13 August 1715) -- 2. The king, his architects and administrators -- 3. The taste of the occupants -- 4. Money -- 5. The enchanted palace (1664-8) ...

Designed by Paris-based Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects, the arched timber and glass building houses a gym and supermarket.

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 1 (Sale info: For Sale). The Architect Le Notre is showing him a group just placed in the basin of Neptune. (This picture was exhibited in the French Salon ...