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The gallery of Records The visitor discovering the room can wonder one moment what can deserve such a flattering name. The discovery of the exposed tables is enough to inform it: the majority represent outstanding scenes of the life of the castle. That was the idea of Napoleon III when ihe made build the part, with the site of a staircase and a hall, in order to connect the Gallery of Plates which makes his continuation, to the wing Louis XV. Its project was not entirely carried out, but among the tables exposed today, several answer its idea :
- Henri IV relevant Sully, by Millin of Perreux, 1819. The scene
took place about 1600. The minister, wrongfully accused of treason, is reassured by the king, before the Court
massed along the pond of Carps
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- La reine Christine et Monaldeschi, by Mrs. Grandpierre Deverzy, 1824. The Queen Christine of Sweden, whereas it resided at the castle in 1657, made assassinate, in a particularly atrocious way, in the gallery of the Stags one of her gentillommes convinced of treason. It is understood easily that Louis XIV, who liked justice, didn't really appreciated this initiative... | |
- Le baptême de Louis XIII à Fontainebleau, by Boulanger, 1834. Contrary to the scene represented on the painting, the ceremony of the baptism did not take place inside the door of the Baptistry, but in the Ovale court. |
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- Allégorie à la mort du Dauphin, by Lagrenée, 1767. It acts of the son of Louis XV and father of Louis XVI, died in Fontainebleau in 1765. | |
- Rencontre de Napoléon et du pape Pie VII dans la forêt de Fontainebleau, by Dunouy et Demarne, 1808. This event proceeded on November 25, 1804, at the time of the arrival of the Pope for the sacring of the Emperor | |
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