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Tabletop with Map of France
In 1714 the Versailles visitor Reverend James Hume described a table in the Trianon (the royal retreat in the gardens): "on which is a curious map of France . . . of diverse coloured Marble." The inscription indicates that the impressive tabletop, representing each of the provinces of France in 1684, was offered to Louis XIV by Claude Antoine Couplet, professor at the Paris Académie des Sciences. Glorifying the Sun King for his successes on the battlefield, the map includes recently seized territories in the north and east.
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