Park-with-stags

The Park-with-stags is the name given to a district of Versailles at the time of Louis XV.

Madam de Pompadour, Favorite of Louis XV, fearing to weary this last, installed in a residence of this district (approximately of 1750 to 1770) of the women (often very young people) who were maintained there to satisfy “amusements” of the king, itself thus preserving its capacity. It controlled that none of these concubines becomes her rival by taking the ascending one on the king. Several of these women had children of Louis XV; they then were sometimes married with a member of the House of the King who endorsed the paternity of the child.

Among the concubines of the park to the stags, the “beautiful O' Morphy appears”, painted by the painter François Boucher and whose, in the Histoire of its life , Jacques Casanova claims to have known to enjoy rather skilfully to deliver it still virgin to the king. It also seems that Madam of Barry also passed by the Park-with-stags before becoming favorite official.

Popular imagination being adapted the place, the expression “the park-with-stags” became a periphrasis to speak about a brothel. Propaganda anti-royalist will also use it to introduce Louis XV like a discharged tyrant. Thus, contrary to the legend, Louis XV never went in this residence, the women doing nothing but place there, being then brought to the palate.

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Article detailing the various remarks of historian on the park-with-stags

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