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Orders for the Sentinel at the Queen’s Apartment

French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

This document lists security rules for the guards at the entrance to Marie Antoinette’s apartment at Versailles. The prohibition of unknown persons, in particular clergymen, was prompted by the 1589 assassination of Henri III by a monk. The rules also address the danger of infection by diseases such as smallpox, which claimed the lives of many members of the royal family, including Louis XV in 1774.

Orders for the Sentinel at the Queen’s Apartment, Stencil and manuscript, pen and brown ink, gold gouache, brush and wash with brown ink traced over pencil on cream paper, French

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