France Versailles Latona Fountain Park Postal Card Europe Architecture

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France

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Unused

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Item: Printed Postcard with Handwritten Message (Not Postally Mailed) Image: Front: Sepia-toned view captioned "153 VERSAILLES. — Le Parc. — Le Bassin de Latone. — LL." (Versailles. — The Park. — The Latona Basin. — LL). The image features a large ornamental urn in the foreground, overlooking the Latona Fountain and the Grand Canal. Publisher: "LL" (Lévy et Neurdein Réunis). Location depicted: Park of Versailles, Yvelines department, France, focusing on the Latona Fountain. Message (handwritten in English): Sender's Dateline: "July, 18" (Year not specified). Transcription: "These gardens stretch as far as the eye can reach (1200 acres) and was the playground of Maria Antoinette at time previous to French Revolution. There are 300 fountains. One of the buildings has 1000 rooms & 6000 people have been put up at the palace over night." (Note: The historical details provided by the sender are generally accurate regarding the scale of Versailles and its association with Marie Antoinette, though specific numbers might be approximate). Historical Context: Versailles: The Palace and its vast gardens, designed by André Le Nôtre, are iconic symbols of French monarchy and landscape architecture. Marie Antoinette: Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI, famously associated with Versailles. Her life at Versailles preceded the French Revolution (1789-1799). Lévy et Neurdein Réunis (LL): A major French postcard publisher. This postcard features a classic view of the Versailles gardens and contains a tourist's handwritten notes about the historical and grand scale of the estate.

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