Theatre visits - Louis XV’s dream: a royal hospital for Versailles

Name: Theatre visits - Louis XV’s dream: a royal hospital for Versailles
Start: 2022-09-18T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:45:00+02:00
Location: Espace Richaud - Ancien hôpital royal

The Compagnie du Chapeau de Paille offers a theatrical tour in the heart of the Espace Richaud.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30Passed

Conditions

Upon registration

Registration

espace.richaud@versailles.fr

ALL OUR TOURS ARE BOOKED.
To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the coronation of Louis XV (1722-2022) and the opening of the Espace Richaud to visitors of the European Heritage Days, the Compagnie du Chapeau de Paille offers a theatrical visit. Specially written for this event and this place, it will focus on the figure of Louis XV, monarch at the origin of the campaign of works intended to make the former hospice of Versailles a royal hospital.
Accompanied by the King and a lady of the Court, visitors will discover another face of Espace Richaud during this theatrical walk through time…
Straw Hat Company
Writing and direction: Alexandre Laval
With actors Alexandre Laval and Éléonore Antoine-Snowden

About the location

Espace Richaud - Ancien hôpital royal

78 boulevard de la Reine 78000 Versailles

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Begun in 1781 under the direction of architect Charles-François Darnaudin, the construction of the Royal Hospital of Versailles lasted for nearly 80 years, and was not completed until 1859\. After the transfer of hospital activities to the Mignot site in 1981, Richaud would experience long years of abandonment, resulting in rapid degradation and even destruction caused by three soothing fires, including the latest one in 2009\. The safeguarding and rehabilitation of the site took place over a period of four years and allowed the redevelopment of a major urban area of Versailles, located between the Versailles Rive-Droite station and the Notre-Dame district.