Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 118
rianstatue of Louis XIV, twenty-one feet high, set up inthe Place Vendome in 1699. Not to trouble aboutthe bad taste which has dressed the head of a king-habited as a hero of antiquity witli an enormousperiwig. . . . the statue is, all the same, a big machine which necessarily required brains to… … PROMETHEUS AND THE EACLE.(fly Francois Dumond.) first statue of Louis had proved too small forjts placeand was given to Marshal BouffleiS Im a countryhouse which he intended to put up near Beauvais.The mansion was never erected, and the Comte de(Villon, the next owner of the property, found…
