Movable Mirrors Boudoir

The mirror panels are part of a mechanism worked from the floor below. When raised, they close off the openings and change the room’s relationship with the windows. They offered Marie-Antoinette a way to make a corner room more private. Under Louis XV, a small staircase here led to the mezzanine. The queen removed it when adapting the room in 1777. Fine carved woodwork and the moving panels became part of her boudoir, a small private sitting room. The mechanism belongs to the room’s furnishings.