Mique also designed a frivolous Chinese inspired structure built in 1776 called the ‘Jeu de Bague’. This was a small red and silver coloured merry-go-round, which had carved wooden seats in the form of peacocks for the ladies and dragons for the men. As it turned on its axis sounds would emanate from small egg-shaped bells suspended from under its cupola. In 1781 Marie Antoinette had a semi-circular pavilion built behind the Jeu de Bague to provide better shelter from the elements for her guests. The Jeu de Bague was built in the English garden of the small Trianon palace, which had a basement passageway constructed to connect the Jeu de Bague’s pavilion directly to the small palace itself. The Jeu de Bague did not survive the revolution, and no original remnant of it is known to exist.
By far the biggest change to the grounds of the Petit Trianon was the addition of the Queen’s model village known as the ‘hameau’, or hamlet (Figure 8), also …show more content…
The Queen also imposed a dress code onto her male guests – a scarlet coat worn with a white waistcoat embroidered in gold. Madame Campan was to later recall the informal life at the Petit Trianon under the reign of Marie Antoinette, as she wrote: ‘(The Queen) entered the sitting room without driving the ladies from their pianoforte or embroidery. The gentlemen continued their billiards or backgammon without suffering her presence to interrupt them’. While Marie Antoinette was in residence at her Trianon she no longer played the part of Queen of France but instead lived as she innocently stated ‘like a private person’. Madame Campan also recalled the informal dress code of the Queen and her ladies, as she stated ’a white gown, a gauze kerchief, and a straw hat were the uniform dress of the Princesses’ (Figure
By far the biggest change to the grounds of the Petit Trianon was the addition of the Queen’s model village known as the ‘hameau’, or hamlet (Figure 8), also …show more content…
The Queen also imposed a dress code onto her male guests – a scarlet coat worn with a white waistcoat embroidered in gold. Madame Campan was to later recall the informal life at the Petit Trianon under the reign of Marie Antoinette, as she wrote: ‘(The Queen) entered the sitting room without driving the ladies from their pianoforte or embroidery. The gentlemen continued their billiards or backgammon without suffering her presence to interrupt them’. While Marie Antoinette was in residence at her Trianon she no longer played the part of Queen of France but instead lived as she innocently stated ‘like a private person’. Madame Campan also recalled the informal dress code of the Queen and her ladies, as she stated ’a white gown, a gauze kerchief, and a straw hat were the uniform dress of the Princesses’ (Figure