Chambre du Roi
La chambre du roi (French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃bʁ dy ʁwa]), the King's Bedchamber, has always been the central feature of the king's apartment in traditional French palace design Ceremonies surrounding the daily life of the king — such as the levée (the ceremonial raising and dressing of the king held in the morning) and the coucher (the ceremonial undressing and putting to bed of the king) — were conducted in the bedchamber.
In 17th century France under the absolutism of Louis XIV, the bedchamber became the focal point — physically as well as ideologically — of the palace of Versailles. However, the bedchamber — and more particularly the bed — played a singular role in French cultural history during the Ancien Régime.
While a throne has been associated with most European monarchies as a symbol of temporal authority, in France of the Ancien Régime, the throne was virtually non-existent. The only time that a throne, per se, was used during the Ancien Régime was during the king’s coronation — as which time it was known as the chaise du sacre — and was used only for the ceremonies of anointing and crowning of the king. During the Ancien Régime, the true symbol of royal authority was the bed.
On the morning of the king’s coronation one of the high-ranking ecclesiastic and one of the high-ranking secular peers of the realm (respectively, usually the archbishop of Laon and the duke of Burgundy; however, this varied depending on the internal politics at the time of the coronation) would arrive at the door of the king's bedchamber in the Palais de Tau (the archiepiscopal palace at Reims). The ceremony of the waking king would ensue: the peers would knock on the door of the king’s bedchamber and ask, “We have come for the king.” “He is not here,” would be intoned from behind the door. The question would be placed twice more; the reply to the third time the question was asked, would be, “He is not here, he is risen.” At which point, the door opened and the peers saw the king, fully dressed in his coronation robes, reclining on the bed. The two peers would then ceremonially lift the king to his feet and escort him to the cathedral for the coronation.
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