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Professor F. C. de Sumichrast last night gave the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles," discussing as his special subject "The Passing of the Splendour." The lecturer most interestingly the important political events leading up to the death of Louis XV, the moral deterioration of the court during that reign, and the complications responsible for the growing aversion to the innocent and once popular Marie Antoinette. The comparatively simple court life enforced during the last days of Louis XIV, was followed, said Professor Sumichrast, by a natural reaction. During the period of social pomposity and court revelries...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will give the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. His subject will be "The Passing of the Splendour...
Professor de Sumichrast will describe some of the events, including the attack on the castle and finally the outbreak of the French revolution, which led up to the abandonment of Versailles as a royal residence...
...LECTURE. "Versailles,--the Passing of the Splendour," Professor de Sumichrast. (Illustrated). Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Professor Sumichrast began by describing some of the most important ceremonies connected with the administration of justice, the bestowal of knight-hood, and other important functions, all carried out with unusual magnificence. The visits of foreign potentates, especially, were made the occasion of displays which had never before been equalled. All these exhibitions of power caused in the people an almost idolatrous worship of their sovereign, and marvellous powers were attributed to him. People flocked from all parts of the world to be cured of diseases by his touch...