On 3 Jan 2014, at 21:10, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/3/2014 2:24 PM, Bob W wrote: >>> On 3 Jan 2014, at 18:26, "Alan C" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Rick wrote: >>> >>> "Curiously, the prevailing winds are from the east; this view >>> looks north." >>> >>> I agree that the view is northerly, therefore left is west! >>> >>> Perhaps the French see it differently? >> >> At Versailles Louis XIV's bedchamber is at the very centre of the >> architectural complex, which is aligned lengthways more or less on a >> north-south access. The Basin of Apollo, the Sun God, shows him >> rising out of the ocean, the rising sun whose path passes over the >> Sun King as he awakens. Unfortunately the basin is in the west, not >> the east. >> >> So perhaps the French do see it differently. Maybe that explains why >> they drive on the wrong side of the road. >> >> B > > If the king's bedroom windows face out towards the Basin of Apollo in > the west, it would be lit by the rising sun. May not be as screwed up as > some people think. >
His bedroom windows face east, so the king himself would be woken by the rising sun if he wanted to be, I suppose. Before he built the hall of mirrors, which runs N-S behind him I imagine the room must have also had west facing windows over the terrace that used to be there, but at that time he was sleeping in the north pavilion, and the queen was at the other end of the terrace. He put the hall of mirrors up so they could get to each other without having to run through rain in their nightclothes, dampening their ardour. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
