Louis XIV 1700 · Versailles
Supper with the royal household
22:15 · Arrival at supper
“At ten o’clock his supper was served. The captain of the guard announced this to him. A quarter of an hour after the King came to supper”
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 · supper paragraph
Timing & context
Saint-Simon distinguishes service at ten from the king’s arrival a quarter-hour later. 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.