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.

In 1660 the Elector Frederick William made it his route of choice to Potsdam, the location of his palace, which had recently been renovated.

While exploring the city and trying to catch a glimpse of the recently captured False Dragon, Rand falls into the palace gardens.

Several other artists and their teams of assistants were already at work on different rooms, many painting over recently completed paintings commissioned by Julius's loathed predecessor, Alexander VI, whose contributions, and arms, Julius was determined to efface from the palace.

Additional theories suggest that either Verica, a British client king of the Roman Empire in the years preceding the Claudian invasion was owner of the palace, or even one Tiberius Claudius Catuarus, whose gold signet ring was recently discovered.

Their recently renovated Clonfert home, a former Bishop's palace, burned down in an accidental fire.

The main building has undergone regular extensions from Victorian times, through to a major extension to create offices for TDs in the 1960s, to most recently the building of Leinster House 2000, a new block of offices built to the north of the original ducal palace.

He then re-married, and his second wife, according to Kentish tradition recorded in the legend of Saint Mildrith, was a woman named Ymme of Frankish royal blood, though recently it has been suggested that she may have instead been the daughter of Erchinoald, mayor of the palace in Neustria, the western part of Francia.

In October 1533, the daughter of Queen Katherine of Aragon, Mary, who had been staying at Beaulieu for some time, was evicted as the palace had recently been granted to George Boleyn ( Anne Boleyn's brother ).

However, after the report was given to Emperor Zhao, the 14-year-old Emperor Zhao took no action on it ; the next day, he summoned Huo to the palace and exonerated him, reasoning that the actions that were accused of Huo had happened so recently that Prince Dan, a long distance away, could not have possibly known them, and therefore the report must have been a forgery.

Importantly, the palace was surrounded by a Minoan town which has only recently been uncovered.

Although this has changed recently and clocks are set to different times around the palace, the clock in the room where he died is still pointing to 9: 05 a. m.

His palace, called Uetjesneferusahure (" Sahure's splendor soars up to heaven "), is known from an inscription on tallow containers recently discovered in Neferefre's mortuary temple.

Besides a few gentlemen in arms and a number of present and former National Guards ( including recently dismissed officers ), the palace was garrisoned by the Gardes Suisse Swiss Guard, about 950 strong.

It is possible that there was a " Council of Lords " ( Совет Господ ) that was headed by the archbishop and met in the archiepiscopal palace ( and in the Palace of Facets after 1433 ), but more recently Jonas Granberg has called into doubt whether such a body every really existed ; he argues it is, in fact, an invention of historians reading too much into sparse sources.

South Korean president Lee Myeong bak has recently announced plans for the construction of a Gyeongsangnam-do leisure resort palace in Hadong.

A colonnade, designed by royal architect Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, was added 1794-1795 to connect the recently occupied King ’ s palace, Moltke Palace, with that of the Crown Prince, Schack ’ s Palace.

Woodley is also home to the recently transformed snooker palace, which following the removal of its snooker tables has become the now infamous Palace Bar.

Saparmurat Niyazov, the recently deceased president of Turkmenistan, ordered the construction of a huge ice palace near the capital city of Aşgabat in April 2004, a remarkable project considering Turkmenistan's climate.

This view is disputed by Amnon Ben-Tor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who believes that recently unearthed evidence of violent destruction by burning verifies the Biblical account. In 2012, a team led Ben-Tor and Sharon Zuckerman discovered a scorched palace from the 13th century BCE in whose storerooms they found 3, 400 year old ewers holding burned crops.

The palace of ancient Iolcos is believed to be located in modern-day Dimini, where a Mycenaean palace was excavated recently

Several distinct commissions in the old palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia ( the Catalan government ), which had then been recently purchased as the seat of the provincial council of Barcelona, ranged from some stained glass for the windows of the hall of the Consell de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya, to decorating the walls of the Salón de Sant Jordi.

However, like Philo, the late-first-century writer Josephus testifies that the Roman governors of Roman Judaea, who governed from Caesarea Maritima on the coast, stayed in Herod's palace while they were in Jerusalem, carried out their judgements on the pavement immediately outside it, and had those found guilty flogged there ; Josephus indicates that Herod's palace is on the western hill, and it has recently ( 2001 ) been rediscovered under a corner of the Jaffa Gate citadel.