Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . 30. A Chateau and Pigeon House The round tower at the right hand in front is a pigeon house. The wall inside is honeycombed with nests, and the pigeons fly in and out at the side of the roof The higher offices in the army were reserved for the nobles. Offices atas well as the easiest and most lucrative places in the Church j^e Churchand about the kings person. All these privileges were vestiges ™^ ^™2iof the powers which the nobles had enjoyed when they ru
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . 30. A Chateau and Pigeon House The round tower at the right hand in front is a pigeon house. The wall inside is honeycombed with nests, and the pigeons fly in and out at the side of the roof The higher offices in the army were reserved for the nobles. Offices atas well as the easiest and most lucrative places in the Church j^e Churchand about the kings person. All these privileges were vestiges ™^ ^™2iof the powers which the nobles had enjoyed when they ruled noblestheir estates as feudal lords. Louis XIV had, as we know,induced them to leave their domains and gather round himat Versailles, where all who could afford it lived for at least apart of the year. 48o Medieval and Modem Times Only a smallpart of thenobles be-longed toold families Only a small part of the nobility in the eighteenth centurywere, however, descendants of the ancient and illustrious feudalfamilies of France. The greater part of them had been enno-bled in recent times by the king, or had purchased or inherited. Fig. 131. Court; Scene at Versailles The king is surrounded by princes of the royal family and the greatestnobles of France while he dresses and shaves upon rising in the morn-ing (the levie). Similar ceremonies were performed when the kingwent to bed at night (the couchle). The bed, hung with rich tapes-tries, is behind the railing. The door at the left leads into a small room— called the Bulls Eye Room i^Salon de ICEil de Bccuf) from theround window above the door — where the ambassadors and otherdignitaries waited to be admitted, and while waiting often planned andplotted how to win the kings favor. Louis XIVs bedroom at Ver-sailles is still preserved, in much of its old-time splendor; 1 for the palaceis now a museum a government office or judgeship which carried the privileges ofnobility with it. This fact rendered the rights and exemption
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