Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. ..
    > Earl Evleth writes:
    >
    > > ?? Food was great in the Bastille!
    >
    > What kind of shower and toilet facilities did the prisoners have? For
    > that matter, what did the king have?

The bathroom of king Louis XV in Versailles has just been restored
this very year according to an article read in Connaissance des Arts
review (website unfortunately in construction) but I don't know if
it's now included in the petits appartements visit and the chateau
website's press release doesn't talk (yet ?) of it at the differentce
of some other restored rooms. A search with "salle bains Louis XV"
only gave :

Boiseries de la Salle de bains de Louis XV, par Jules-Antoine
Rousseau, 1770-1774
http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/l...hitecture.html

Jean-François Janinet (1752-1814). La Toilette de Vénus fut peinte par
François Boucher, en 1751, pour décorer, au château de Bellevue, la
salle de bains de la marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), maîtresse et
amie de Louis XV. Il est l'inventeur d'un procédé de gravure ÃÂ
l'aquatinte en couleurs, qui lui permit de rendre avec délicatesse les
peintres alors àla mode, Fragonard ou Boucher par exemple.
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf138.jpg
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0005.htm

Louis XIV was reluctant to take baths because of his physicians and
the "imaginary dangerous microbs" recently discovered in water but he
was of course washing himself, probably with a wet towel instead, when
needed... !!!

didier Meurgues

[email protected] (meurgues) wrote in message news:<[email protected]. com>...
    > Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. ..
    > > Earl Evleth writes:
    > >
    > > > ?? Food was great in the Bastille!
    > >
    > > What kind of shower and toilet facilities did the prisoners have? For
    > > that matter, what did the king have?
    >
    > The bathroom of king Louis XV in Versailles has just been restored
    > this very year according to an article read in Connaissance des Arts
    > review

I read several reviews together and made a confusion. It was in fact
in the last week issue of the review "L'Oeil" where they say that it's
included in the appartement of Mme Adelaïde. So normally it should be
visible in the "appartements du dauphin et de la Dauphine"
visit/circuit.

didier Meurgues

(website unfortunately in construction) but I don't know if
    > it's now included in the petits appartements visit and the chateau
    > website's press release doesn't talk (yet ?) of it at the differentce
    > of some other restored rooms. A search with "salle bains Louis XV"
    > only gave :
    >
    > Boiseries de la Salle de bains de Louis XV, par Jules-Antoine
    > Rousseau, 1770-1774
    > http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/l...hitecture.html
    >
    > Jean-François Janinet (1752-1814). La Toilette de Vénus fut peinte par
    > François Boucher, en 1751, pour décorer, au château de Bellevue, la
    > salle de bains de la marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), maîtresse et
    > amie de Louis XV. Il est l'inventeur d'un procédé de gravure ÃÂ
    > l'aquatinte en couleurs, qui lui permit de rendre avec délicatesse les
    > peintres alors àla mode, Fragonard ou Boucher par exemple.
    > http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf138.jpg
    > http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0005.htm
    >
    > Louis XIV was reluctant to take baths because of his physicians and
    > the "imaginary dangerous microbs" recently discovered in water but he
    > was of course washing himself, probably with a wet towel instead, when
    > needed... !!!
    >
    > didier Meurgues