Ancien Regime is proud to release its recent (non mesh) build, la Pavillon Des Retraites. Keeping with the times (1770s of Versailles), this quiet little pavilion, serves as a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the noble life. A Pavilion is a free-standing structure sited a short distance from a main residence, whose architecture makes it an object of pleasure. This pavilion is known as a Belvedere which is an architectural term adopted from Italian (literally "fair view"), which refers to any architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. A belvedere may be built in the upper part of a building so as to command said view. Unlike my earlier Pavilions, whose creation was more of an entertainment spot, or a getaway for a day, la Pavillon Des Retraites was created to be as a complete retreat. It offers a salon, a small chambre for a day bed, a large cabinet, and two smaller rooms for which ever pleases you. It would be perfect even as a guest house!

The dimensions of the floor plan, are just under 21 m x 16 m. It contains five rooms, with two principle entrances. The overall land impact of la Pavillon Des Retraites, is 185 LI! It's 161 LI if you don't use the bed prop, offered with the building. Only 161 LI then! Sadly, the Bed is just a prop, and contains no animations. The entire structure, is Copy and Mod.

Over View:

• This Building, is designed in imitation of 18th century garden Structures.
• Five rooms, using historical panels, and Inspired by historical buildings.
• All textures are unique and made and used exclusively for Ancien Regime.
• This Building itself is 161 LI.
• Mod and Copy Only.

You can purchase this product at my SL marketplace store:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AR-Pavillon-Des-Retraites/4698999

Best Regards, Delos!

I found this article from therenown magazine Vanity Fair . It's pretty interesting that theauthorsof the magazine did a segment on Britain's Lavish,Blenheim Palace.

I hope you Enjoy, Richard.

Magnificent Obsession

With its 2,000 acres, 187 rooms, and Masterpiece Theatre lifestyle, Blenheim Palace eclipses even the British monarchys homes in the eyes of many. And for the three centuries since Queen Anne bestowed the land on the first Duke of Marlborough, his heirs have battled to keep it going. In a rare interview with the 85-year-old 11th duke, known as Sunny, and his fourth wife, the exotic and wealthy Lily, James Reginato explores the sacrifices made in Blenheims namefrom loveless marriages to a bitter legal battlewhile Jonathan Becker shoots exclusive photos of the palace and its private quarters.

BRITISH FAIRWAYS A valet draws the curtains in a guest bedroom at Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire.Right,a view of the Baroque palaces limestone faade, looking out over a portion of the vast grounds.

For 300 years, Blenheim Palace, seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, has awed all visitors, even the grandest among them. We have nothing to equal this, King George III said with a gasp to Queen Charlotte in 1786 as they caught their first glimpse of the Baroque behemoth, in Oxfordshire.

Indeed, Buckingham House, as the monarchs dwelling was then called, was primitive by comparison. With seven acres under its roof, Blenheim arguably still eclipses in splendor and magnitude any of the British royal familys homes, and it is the only nonroyal, non-ecclesiastical residence in England styled a palace. Its grandeur registered even with Hitler, who according to wartime lore planned to move in after his invasion of England and thus ordered the Luftwaffe not to bomb it.

To Continue Reading, here's the link : http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/06/blenheim-palace-201106

Extremely Interesting stuff!

Congratulations on your expansion!

By Yahoo News - http://news.yahoo.com/squash-holds-decapitated-king-louis-xvis-blood-191730913.html

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette ) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then stored the handkerchief in a gourd.

Now scientists have confirmed that a squash emblazoned with figures from the French Revolution indeed contains the dried blood of the executed king.

Scientists matched DNA from the blood with DNA from a detached and mummified head believed to be from a direct ancestor of King Louis XVI , the 16th-century French king Henry IV. The new analysis, which was published Dec. 30 in the journal Forensic Science International, confirmed the identity of both French royals.

King Henri IV

"We have these two kings scattered in pieces in different places in Europe," said study co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox , a paleogenomics researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. The new analysis confirms that the two men "are separated by seven generations and they are paternally related." [ See Photos of the Embalmed Head & Gourd ]

Two French kings

King Henry IV was born in 1553 and became king in 1589 after a crazed monk killed his predecessor, Henry III. To ascend to the throne, Henry, a Protestant, converted to Catholicism and laid siege to Paris. Through his fair and peaceful reign, he earned a reputation as " Good King Henry ."

But in 1610, a fanatical Catholic assassinated him, and his body was embalmed and laid to rest in northern Paris. There it stayed until the French Revolution , when looters desecrated the graves of bygone monarchs. At this point, someone must have cut off King Henry 's head.

The head was held privately until 2010, when researchers used a facial reconstruction to argue that it once belonged to Good King Henry. But DNA taken from tissues in the head was too contaminated to analyze for any definitive conclusion.

Meanwhile, a wealthy Italian family possessed the gourd that allegedly contained the blood of the unpopular King Louis XVI. (The handkerchief presumably had disintegrated.)

Louis XVI was born in 1754 and died in 1793, when the rising tide of revolution swept him and Marie Antoinette from power and eventually to the guillotine . At his execution, legend had it that witnesses dipped their handkerchiefs in the monarch's blood, Lalueza-Fox told LiveScience . Text on the gourd recounts the gruesome story: "On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation." [ 10 Historically Significant Political Protests ]

Blood relatives

Last year Lalueza-Fox analyzed the genetic material in the blood and found it came from a blue-eyed European male. But without any comparison DNA, he couldn't definitively say it was the blood of the last French king .

This year, however, the forensic scientist who originally studied the embalmed head sent DNA from inside it to the research team. The new DNA was not as badly damaged, and Lalueza-Fox and his colleagues were able to get parts of the Y, or male sex, chromosome, which is often used to identify male lineages.

By comparing the Y chromosome in both samples, the team concluded that the two men were 250 times more likely to be genetically related than unrelated. Both samples had genetic variants characteristic of the Bourbon region of France, and those variants are very rare in Europe today.

Given the history behind the samples, the new findings confirm that both the dried blood belongs to King Louis XVI. It also verifies that the embalmed head once belonged to King Henry IV.

Now that it has confirmed the blood came from Louis XVI, the team is planning to reconstruct the entire genome of the deposed French monarch.

"This could be the first historical genome ever to be retrieved," Lalueza-Fox said.

By Yahoo News - http://news.yahoo.com/squash-holds-decapitated-king-louis-xvis-blood-191730913.html

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. It just shows the truesplendorsof the eras past. Not only was fashion and housing raised to impress, but even the basic things, like cards. The small items, porcelain, toiletries, and miniatureobjects of art, as equally impressive in creation, just as valuable stunning, as any necklace of palace.

Congratulations, an interesting concept you have!

Im sorry to have heard these realms are closed. Expressing the same feeling as those mentioned above, as well as in the post, I would like to take a moment to appreciate the work went into these sims. I may have not been part of the RP, but as with many of us here, I am an explorer, loving to visit sims that offered something different, or represented something special, which both of these realms did.

As sad as I am for the loss, I am also eager. I believe in holding onto the good memories. With the sims gone, these memories, of friends or architecture alike, mean more, becoming something golden. I have noticed a pattern in my time of SL, when one door closes, another opens. Ive seen again and again sims, reborn, or a new culture born of the old one after time. I hope oneday, we can enjoy more from those who founded these past realms.

I offer my gratitude, to the owners, to the builders, who offered yet another chapter which makes up the history of the courts.

Baron Rushcliffe

Welcome back, I wish you all the best.

I think that lady is more brilliant than the jewels

May the glitter be with you