Daily life Quote by Marcel Proust

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on…

— Marcel Proust

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms.…

— George Blagden

“Versailles has only existed for seven years. It does not have any ancient traditions. It was made by Colbert, the commoner. It is full…

— Neal Stephenson

“You Englishman, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid,…

— Susan Banfield

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on…

— Edmund Burke

“On some evenings it would sadden Jacques to look at them (workers). Until then he had only known the riches and the joys of…

— Albert Camus

“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more…

— Alison Weir

“Her manifold ills were summed up in the King. Since the Valois, she had had no monarch so worthless. He did not want understanding,…

— Francis Parkman

“Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is…

— Victor Hugo

“Did you know there are three palaces at Versailles? How many does one family need when thousands have no homes? I don’t approve of…

— Debra Borchert

“In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens