Georges Vigarello

Versailles, le propre et le sale

Julia Bracher

Mathieu Da Vinha, Georges Vigarello

The chateau of Versailles is believed to have been a dirty palace: a place where everyone tossed the contents of their chamber pots from the windows above… Yet during the chateau’s construction, Louis XIV had given thought to commodities, and several public latrines were built as well as a very modern water system. So where did this bad reputation come from?