Talk:Hall of Mirrors

message: I have downgraded this, and all the other articles about individual parts of the palce of Versailles. It is not reasonable to have every suite of rooms rated as "top importance", along with the Parthenon and Abu Simbel. One top listing per building is sufficient. Amandajm (talk) 12:42, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating

message: I would note that by the sources, 3 million visitors annually seems to imply some modicum level of tourism here. I like to saw logs! (talk) 06:46, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Tourism

message: In the "Functions" section, first sentence of the third paragraph, the writer of the article stated (in parenthesis) that the Hall of Mirrors was used to establish the beginning of the (second) German Empire.
In the 19th century, at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian king, William I, was declared German emperor — thus establishing the (second) German Empire — on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors by Bismarck and the victorious German princes and lords.
When was the first German Empire? If this is incorrect, the notation should be removed.
Tom C. 10:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: By German reckoning the "First German Empire" was the Holy Roman Empire, founded by Otto I and eventually dismantled by Napoleon a thousand years later.  The Second Empire lasted from 1871 until World War I when the Kaiser was forced to abdicate.  Hitler called his conquests the "Third Empire" or "The Third Reich",  "Reich" being German for Empire.  Since "Third Reich" is a common term for Nazi Germany, "Second Empire" is a proper term for the Kaisers' realm.  CharlesTheBold (talk) 04:07, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second German Empire? 

message: What about the restoration? Or the many different decorative incarnations? Or historic photos? The lighting has actually changed a fair bit and nothing has been said about it (I think the current chandeliers were produced in the 1980s). Seven Letters 15:34, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone? Seven Letters 20:56, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More? 

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message: In the history and research of the Palace of Versailles and its associated buildings, myths, legends, and folklore have engendered stories that are legion.  This user has deleted the following sentence, which had been tagged for citation in July 2008 – five years ago, on grounds that the statement seems specious and apocryphal: 
:The Hall of Mirrors' technological innovation which made it such an exceptional space during its day was the high temperature melting process of glass which was utilized to construct the mirrors. This was the first time this process had been done, adding to its significance.
In point of fact, the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles was not the first time copious use of mirrors was used in interior decoration.  A possible, if not probable, antecedent to the Hall of Versailles can be found in the Palacio de Buen Retiro in Madrid.  This palace, which was built for Philip IV of Spain (Louis XIV’s father-in-law), included a large reception/throne room that was called 
Salón de Reinos (Hall of the Realms).  This room was noted for its copious use of mirrors in the interior decoration.  One of the best sources for the history of the Buen Retiro is:
:Brown, Jonathan and John Huxtable Elliott. A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Furthermore, in his 1981 article for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts,(Kevin Olin Johnson,  “Il n’y plus de Pyrénées: Iconography of the first Versailles of Louis XIV”, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 6e pér., vol. 97(January, 1981): 29–40.) Kevin Olin Johnson posited the theory – a theory that merits serious consideration – that the plan of the Palace of Versailles was so devised so as to suggest a possible dual-monarchy.  On the grounds that Philip IV failed to meet the terms of the marriage contract of his daughter Marie-Thérèse to Louis XIV (terms of the contract stipulated that Marie-Thérèse renounce her claim to the Spanish throne), Louis XIV launched the War of Devolution with the objective of the abrogation of certain terms of the marriage contract – namely the renunciation of his wife’s claim to the Spanish throne.  History has attributed to Louis XIV the expression “Il n’y plus des Pyrénées” (The Pyrenees are no more), which indicated that the border between France and Spain no longer would exist should Louis XIV achieve his goals regarding his wife’s claim to the Spanish throne.
A. Ratnik 20:41, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 02.08.2013 

message: The previously titled section of ==Sources and additional reading== has been renamed to ==Further reading== because those which truly were used as sources should be separated from those that were not.  Confer the warning at the top of the page.Curb Chain (talk) 11:07, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources