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Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.
All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.
And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.
Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.
At times it was applied to various priests, e. g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus (' of the palace ') and Abbas castrensis (' of the camp ') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns ’ court and army respectively.
In 294 BC, after forty-three years of semi-autonomy under Macedonian suzerainty, Ambracia was given by the son of Cassander to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who made it his capital, and adorned it with palace, temples and theatres.
He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.
Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.
Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.
Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina.
In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.
Towards 57, Agrippina was expelled from the palace and went to live in a riverside estate in Misenum.
great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.
The tutor found them missing and eventually found them on the palace grounds but she was able to convince him that they would return to the palace shortly.
Alexios arranged for Maria to stay on the palace grounds, and it was thought that Alexios was considering marrying the erstwhile empress.
The wedding was celebrated at Torgau, the palace of the Queen of Poland, on 14 October 1711.
He was the governor of the palace during the reign of Adosinda's husband Silo.
The great palace of the city was given to the monks of Bernard.
During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.

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The Emperors ordered all members of the court to perform a sacrifice to purify the palace.
The elector ordered the ancient chapel of his palace to be prepared for the congregation, and the services were frequently attended by the younger members of his family.
The king's wife, Tanaquil, immediately ordered the palace to be shut.
Lord Lampson, the British Ambassador in Egypt, backed by a battalion of British troops, marched into King Farouk's palace and ordered him to dismiss Maher and appoint the pro-British Mustafa el-Nahhas in his place.
He was reputed to have ordered all of the princesses to come to his palace and have sexual intercourse with him.
In the early 18th century, Karim Khan Zand ordered a palace, and a government office to be built in Tehran, possibly to declare the city his capital, but later moved his government to Shiraz.
Timișoara grew considerably during the reign of Charles I, who, upon his visit here in 1307, ordered the construction of a royal palace.
He reportedly ordered organ music to be played constantly throughout the palace in an attempt to soothe his frenzied mind, and it was rumoured that his taste for attendants extended as far as " devouring " a number of them during his reign.
Darius ordered his name and the details of his empire to be written in gold and silver on plates, which were placed in covered stone boxes in the foundations under the Four Corners of the palace.
This bath house was radically transformed by the first humanist pope of the Italian Renaissance, Nicholas V, who, c. 1454, ordered the construction of a bath palace to be built ( according to Nicholas's biographer, Gianozzo Manetti ) " with such magnificence and with such expense that it was not only deemed suitable for a stay and salutary for the sick but seemed an edifice destined to have rooms fit for princes and for living regally.
Merneptah, according to official texts of his reign, ordered the building of a large walled enclosure housing a new temple and adjoining palace.
In 713 BC he ordered the construction of a new palace and town called Dur-Sharrukin (" House of Sargon "), 20 km north of Nineveh at the foot of the Gebel Musri.
He ordered that Wachtparad ( Watch parades ) took place early every morning in the parade ground of the palace, regardless of the weather conditions.
Belshazzar, being greatly alarmed at the mysterious handwriting on the wall, and apprehending that someone in disguise might enter the palace with murderous intent, ordered his doorkeepers to behead every one who attempted to force an entrance that night, even though such person should claim to be the king himself.
They said, " Has not the king ordered us to put to death any one who attempts to enter the palace, though he claim to be the king himself?
On the southern slopes of Mount Naranco, near the city of Oviedo, Ramiro I ordered the construction of the palace of Santa María del Naranco, and a church known as San Miguel de Lillo or Liño.
When Richard II was imprisoned and murdered on his return to England, Queen Isabella was ordered by the new King Henry IV to move out of Windsor Castle and to settle in the Bishop of Salisbury's Thameside palace at Sonning.
On December 27, Karpukhin was ordered to take the presidential palace.
60, 000 and ordered to leave the palace and the fort.
Sarit's relationship with King Bhumibol was evident when the King ordered 21 days of official mourning in the palace after his death, with Sarit's body lying in state under royal patronage for 100 days and their Majesties the King and Queen attending his cremation on March 17, 1964.
Within hours of a palace seizure and with television coverage of this spreading through Iraq, U. S. forces ordered Iraqi forces within Baghdad to surrender, or the city would face a full-scale assault.
He then ordered his guards to show the rebels Selim's body, and they promptly tossed it into the inner courtyard of the palace.
The palace was no longer in residential use after 1649, but in 1688 James II ordered partial reconstruction of the palace: this time as a royal nursery.
Instead they moved on Baghdad, and on that day, Colonels Abdul Karim Qassim and Abdul Salam Arif seized control of the country and ordered the royal family to evacuate the palace.

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