Louis XIV 1700 · Versailles
Wake & begin the lever
08:00 · Start only
“At eight o’clock the chief valet de chambre on duty, who alone had slept in the royal chamber, and who had dressed himself, awoke the King.”
Verbatim excerpt · Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
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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 · after “Let us return now to the Court”
Timing & context
Saint-Simon describes the formal waking ceremony. Its duration is not specified.
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.