Louis XIV 1700 · Versailles
Gardens or hunting
14:00 · Conditional outing
“2 pm: the king gave his orders”
Short verbatim excerpt · Palace of Versailles
Open the original for the surrounding passage.
A day in the life of Louis XIV
Official museum history overview
Mornings and Afternoons · daily timetable
Passage: Afternoons · 2 pm
Timing & context
The museum places afternoon outings at two. Gardens and hunting were alternatives, not an obligation to hunt daily. No end time is supplied.
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.