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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world.
My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting.
Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers
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Thanks to king of the French Louis Philippe I that seeing history goes to nothing, had the brilliant idea of converting it into a museum! as he said, FOR THE GLORY OF FRANCE, So in 1837, the castle became the museum, and the story began for all of us. I got caught up in this museum magna, the most beautiful of them all. A bit of stories, compiled from my time as living there and Friends of the Castle.
The chambre du roi or king’s bedroom in the oldest part of the palace that gives to the cour de Marbre, It was from the balcon that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette spoked to the people of Paris , The symbolic courtyard tells us of where the absolute monarchy was born and where it ended, The cour de marbre or marble courtyard, done by 1681, and renovated a bit in 1678 to give it a clock crown on top middle of the square, and the windows expanded to seven. You have the statues in the cour de marbre representing Africa and America on the south side of it, facing the Asia and Europe on the other side. Here too you find on the facades of the cour de Marbre, 84 busts done in 1685, after heroes of antiquities such as Cyrus, Démetrios, jules Cesar, Auguste Marc Anthony, Titus, Alexandre Severe, Constantine, Alexander the Great as well as a Greco-Roman pantheon that mark the work of Le Brun all over the palace to glorified he actions of Louis XIV.
The Cour de Marbre is the courtyard of the initial castle built in 1623 by Louis XIII. The white and black tiles that cover it come from the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte. The main facade is occupied in its center by a central front of three spans marked by two colossal doric pilasters. Three doors on the ground floor give access to the low gallery. The floor is marked by a balcony worn by paired columns one-side-in red marble on pedestal. The windows on the floor overlook the king’s bedroom, they are in the middle of the custom and their archivolt interrupts the frieze of the colossal order, each wardrobe is occupied by a triglyph. The front-body has a attic floor framed by two pilasters with Corinthian marquee. The trumeaux are occupied by trophies of weapons carved in bas-relief done in 1680 and restored in 1893.
The attic floor is crowned by a clock framed by a laurel torus, topped with a helmet and flanked by standard, taken in a sculpted group named Mars and Hercules at rest, representing Hercules to rest dressed in the skin From the lion of Nemea to the left and March to the right -wing rest on the right. They are allegories to Louis XIV victorious. Representing on the left, on the Hercules side, Achéloos and L’Hedre de Lerne, symbols of the Rhine crossed and the League of Augsburg defeated, and on the right, on the Mars side, a lion and a defeated eagle, representing Spain and Empire defeated by the French during the Holland War. The degraded sculptures are returned in 1869 substituting the eagle, symbol of the second French empire then in place but represented here defeated, by a ram. This clock does not have a mechanism and it indicated the time of the death of the king. The walls of the cour de Marbre carry, Roman busts to make Versailles, a new Rome.
The official Château de Versailles on the Cour de Marbre: https://bienvenue.chateauversailles.fr/en/palace/welcome/124_marble-courtyard#!panel-42
The Versailles tourist office on the palace/museum: https://www.versailles-tourisme.com/chateau-de-versailles.html
There you go folks, one of the must to see in Versailles and worth it. Another masterpiece of my belle France, and hope you have the time to see it while at this huge property that is the Domaine de Versailles. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Cour de Marbre of the Château de Versailles !!! as I.
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!! 
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