. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. ght them in mathe-matics, history, and geography. The duties of these pageswere numerous. They followed the king to the army andwere attached to his service and to those of his the evening, carrying tapers of white wax or torches, theylighted the kings path in the palace and out of it. TheEtat de la France (1712) furnishes the following details: When the king goes to shoot, four pages of the GreatStables are sent to His Majesty, and they call them the fourordinaries. They follow the king and take charge of hisdogs. Six pages from the
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. ght them in mathe-matics, history, and geography. The duties of these pageswere numerous. They followed the king to the army andwere attached to his service and to those of his the evening, carrying tapers of white wax or torches, theylighted the kings path in the palace and out of it. TheEtat de la France (1712) furnishes the following details: When the king goes to shoot, four pages of the GreatStables are sent to His Majesty, and they call them the fourordinaries. They follow the king and take charge of hisdogs. Six pages from the Little Stables follow also. Ifany ladies go with the king, pages from the Great Stablesaccompany the ladies. The six pages of the Little Stableshave the honor of carrying His Majestys guns, and the gameshot by the king is frequently distributed among them. Inother hunts, when there are ladies mounted on horses fromthe Little Stables, a page of the Little Stables accompanieseach lady. Whenever the king drives at night in a carriage with 72. Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV in the Royal Courtyard. Versailles The Kings Stables six or eight horses, as in returning from Marly to Versailles,four pages of the Little Stables ride in front of and besidethe carriage, bearing torches. The pages 1 were picturesque figures in the life of the young sprigs of the nobility, graceful and gallant, gor-geously appareled, served at all times and seasons, at the hunts,at the fetes, at the ceremonies, at the collations in the park,everywhere. They had youth and hope and ambition; theyknew the etiquette and the intrigues of their world, and theymade their way. But those to whom fortune granted apartial realization of their dreams, who became grand sei-gneurs with places and pensions, and flatterers and enemies,and had learned in the process the vanity and inanity of thelife, must have looked back regretfully at times to thosehappy, hopeful days of yore, when as royal pages, full ofthe joy
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