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20 de jul. de 2021 · From the Palace of Versailles, King Louis XIV commanded not only the kingdom of France but also the kingdom of animals. In the world-famous gardens, he created an extraordinary menagerie of beasts, a living, breathing allegory for the Sun King’s power over all he surveyed.
Unlike the menagerie at the Château de Vincennes, created in 1661 by Louis XIV for the show of fighting wild animals, the Menagerie of Versailles was a place of pleasure and discovery for the court, visitors, artists and scientists.
The animals in the menagerie were also a great source of inspiration for the artists of the time: they helped Claude Perrault with his Natural History, as well as serving the Royal Academy of Sciences as subjects for dissections and, later, Louis XV and Louis XVI, in their naturalism pursuits.
Le château de Versailles, sous le règne de Louis XIV, ne peut s'étudier sans la Ménagerie royale, que le Roi Soleil fait aménager à proximité du Grand Canal. S'y côtoient les animaux les plus rares et les plus exotiques - du coati au couagga, du casoar à la grue couronnée (surnommé "l'oiseau royal") - formant une extraordinaire ...
The royal menagerie was a source of great pride to Louis XIV, who had it constructed in the early days of Versailles. It was populated with animals that most Europeans had never seen before, often gifts from ambassadors: lions, tigers, lynx, camels, llamas, ostriches, flamingos, gazelles….
This article examines the shift in animal spectatorship at the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV (the 1660s) from the violence of wild animal combat at the Vincennes Menagerie to the peaceful display of graceful of graceful birds in the first.
Louis XIV's elephant (born around 1664 and died in 1681 at the Château de Versailles) was a gift from the King of Portugal to Louis XIV, King of France. It is the only African elephant recorded in Europe between 1483 and 1862.
