" It is nothing, Sire; Marly's rain does not get wet. ” Saint-Simon, in his Memoirs , makes fun of the insinuating abbot of Polignac, so happy to be one of the king's guests that he launches this handing over to the sovereign who had been kind enough to worry about his habit during a downpour. "A flattery whose misery was raised and whose word has remained in the memory" : of these platitudes that we could still hear today in the presidential plane when it takes to China this eternal lot of courtiers who crossed centuries. The palace, invented to escape the Court, has forever become synonymous with comical courtesy. The museum, which has long been called "museum-walk" and displays, at the edge of the vast estate, these two words on a banner, "Sire, Marly ...", has just reopened.
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The castle, built in 1679 to be an anti-Versailles, but just next to Versailles, disappeared at the start of the 19th century. There are still beautiful and empty perspectives, geometric lines
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