Any monarch properly dedicated to pomp must have a menagerie, a collection of wild and exotic animals. Or so thought the French king Louis XIV, who established one at Versailles in 1662. Gazelles nibbled on the palace's lawns while ostriches, herons and egrets stalked a re-creation of an African...
The Power of Art
Any monarch properly dedicated to pomp must have a menagerie, a collection of wild and exotic animals. Or so thought the French king Louis XIV, who established one at Versailles in 1662. Gazelles nibbled on the palace's lawns while ostriches, herons and egrets stalked a re-creation of an African...