Louis XIV 1700 · Versailles
Dinner in the bedchamber
13:00 · Usual start
“The ordinary hour was one o’clock; if the council still lasted, then the dinner waited and nothing was said to the King.”
Verbatim excerpt · Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
Line breaks and page markers omitted.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency
Public-domain English translation · Project Gutenberg eBook 3875
Volume 11 · Chapter LXXVIII · recurring court routine
Passage: Chapter LXXVIII · ordinary dinner hour
Timing & context
The king normally ate in his chamber. Dinner could wait for council; the meal’s duration is unknown.
Saint-Simon supplies the waking and meal times. This calendar follows his 08:00 waking time; Versailles’s modern overview gives 08:30. Court routines varied with councils, outings, illness and residence. No fixed bedtime ceremony is shown: Saint-Simon says it changed during the later reign.
1700 is an editorial representative year within the late-reign period described by Saint-Simon. This combines his recurring court account with clearly identified timings from Versailles’s museum overview.