Quand Versailles Etait Meuble D'argent-when Versailles Was Furnished In Silver

摘要

In December 1689, King Louis XIV startled his court, and one might say the world, by sending all of his silver to the mint to help pay for his war with the League of Augsburg. The last of it was melted down in February 1690. Some years ago, at the time of the exhibition Versailles et les tables royals en Europe,' Mogens Bencard, then director of the Danish Royal Collections at Rosenborg Castle, suggested the possibility of a show to evoke the era of that lost silver at Versailles by drawing from the substantial collections at Rosenborg.2 His idea followed the approach of the tables royales exhibition, which had drawn from foreign collections to present objects similar to what had been used at Versailles.