In the summer of 2021, my mother’s house sold, we held an estate sale that nearly killed us all, and she moved into a lovely independent living apartment. My mother is generally pleased with her new home, although tales from the scene make it sound like a middle school, where around ...
The Sun King thought the new grand park and gardens and fetes deserved an equally grand house, including on-site lodging for lots and lots of the high nobility– a way, it turned out, of completely controlling them.The architect Louis Le Vau was chosen, and he delivered, followed on his ...