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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Palace and Park of Versailles' has mentioned 'Water' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 History 1.1 The palace of Louis XIV 1.2 Enlargement of the Palace (1678xe2x80x931715) 1.3 The Palace of Louis XV 1.4 Louis XVI, and the Palace during the Revolution 1.5 19th century xe2x80x93 history museum and government venue 1.6 20th century 1.7 21st century 2 Ownership and management 3 Architecture and plan 4 Royal Apartments 4.1 Ambassador's Staircase 4.2 The State Apartments of the King 4.2.1 The Salon of Hercules 4.2.2 The Salon of Abundance 4.2.3 The Salon of Venus 4.2.4 The Salon of Mercury 4.2.5 The Salon of Mars 4.2.6 The Salon of Apollo 4.2.7 The Salon of Diana 4.3 Private apartments of the King and Queen 4.3.1 Private apartments of the King 4.3.2 Private apartments of The Queen 5 The Grand Gallery 5.1 The War Salon 5.2 The Hall of Mirrors 5.3 The Peace Salon 6 Royal Chapel 7 Royal Opera 8 Museum of the History of France 9 Gardens and fountains 9.1 The Parterre d'Eau and the Parterre and Fountain of Latona 9.2 Fountain of the Chariot of Apollo and the Grand Canal 9.3 North Parterre, Dragon Basin, and Basin of Neptune 9.4 South Parterre and the Orangerie 9.5 The Fountains and the shortage of water 9.5.1 Sanitation 10 The Bosquets or Groves 11 The Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon 12 The Hamlet of Marie Antoinette 13 Modern Political and ceremonial functions 14 Cost 15 Gallery 16 See also 17 Notes 17.1 Citations 18 References 18.1 Web sources 19 Further reading 20 External links | WIKI |
| The features closest to the Palace are the two water parterres, large pools which reflect the faxc3xa7ade of the palace. | WIKI |
| These are decorated with smaller works of sculpture, representing the rivers of France, which are placed so as not to interfere with the reflections in the water. | WIKI |
| Gaspard's brother Balthazard designed six lead half-human, half-frog figures to grace the water spouts surrounding the Latona statue, with 24 cast lead frogs positioned on the grass surrounding the perimeter of the fountain. | WIKI |
| The chariot rising from the water symbolized the rising of the sun. | WIKI |
| Another group of formal gardens is located on the north side of the water parterre. | WIKI |
| The Dragon Fountain is one of the oldest at Versailles and has the highest jet of water, twenty-seven meters. | WIKI |
| The Neptune Fountain was originally decorated only with a circle of large lead basins jetting water; Louis XV added statues of Neptune, Triton and other gods of the sea. | WIKI |
| The Fountains and the shortage of water[edit] | WIKI |
| Supplying water for the fountains of Versailles was a major problem for the royal government. | WIKI |
| This presented the daunting problem to Louis XIV's engineers of how to transport water uphill over such a distance. | WIKI |
| 259 pumps carried water up to the 530-foot (160xc2xa0m) high Louveciennes Aqueduct, which fed the water into huge reservoirs at Marly-le-Roi. | WIKI |
| [97] At full capacity, over one million gallons of water per day could be pumped into the Marly reservoirs, but ironically by the 1690s the Chxc3xa2teau de Marly had become the main recipient, since Louis XIV built an enormous water cascade to rival the waterworks at Versailles. | WIKI |
| In 1685, pressure on water supplies led Louis XIV to commission another aqueduct, the Canal de l'Eure, to transport water from the River Eure, 52 miles to the southwest. | WIKI |
| [97] The aqueduct was intended to carry water by gravity from a high reservoir near the river, through the gardens of the Chxc3xa2teau de Maintenon, to Versailles. | WIKI |
| [99] Despite enormous investment in canals and machinery for hoisting water, Versailles never had sufficient water supply for its hundreds of fountains. | WIKI |
| In the time of Louis XIV, even the palace, with its thousands of inhabitants, was continually short of fresh drinking water, necessitating the relocation of the court periodically to the palaces of Fontainebleau or Compixc3xa8gne. | WIKI |
| For everyone else, water was carried by a small army of water carriers to the upper floors, filling copper tanks in the private appartements of the courtiers. | WIKI |
| [101] For most courtiers, bathing was infrequent and might only be carried out in portable bathtubs in their chambers, filled with water carried by hand from the nearest ground floor tap. | WIKI |
| [103] The baths were installed with hot and cold running water, at the time an exceptional technological advancement, but their primary use was for sexual trysts between the couple rather than for hygiene. | WIKI |
| Louis XV commissioned a bathroom to be built when he was thirteen years old xe2x80x93 he would later build bathrooms supplied with plumbed-in hot and cold water. | WIKI |
| Louis XV's care for hygiene led him to install an early water closet, imported from England, in 1738. | WIKI |
| Known as an "English Place" (Lieu xc3xa0 l'Anglaise), the flush toilet was supplied with water from an overhead tank and emptied into a ground level drain, preventing lingering odors. | WIKI |
| By the mid-eighteenth century, other members of the royal family, the King's mistress Madame du Barry, and certain high-level courtiers had also installed their own water closets. | WIKI |
| Other notable groves include Les Dxc3xb4mes, the Bosquet d'Encelade (after Enceladus, c. 1675), the Thxc3xa9xc3xa2tre d'Eau (Water Theater), and the Bains d'Apollon (Baths of Apollo). | WIKI |