ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the political role of royal residences in monarchical propaganda and self-fashioning, not only in France but also in other parts of Europe in the period that directly followed the French Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that in those circumstances, the Old Regime pan-European idea of royal residence, which focused on the glorification of monarchs and emphasized their utmost superiority over the people, was an ambiguous legacy for their post-Revolutionary successors. The chapter discusses in separate sections, providing the reader with a selection of residences that underwent most notable modifications in the period in question. It explores post-Revolutionary France, where Napoleon Bonaparte revived a monarchical regime in 1804. The chapter focuses on Napoleonic satellite monarchies in other parts of Europe and offers a survey of characteristic cases to show that residences also played a role in courting ‘social allies’ for monarchs in the period of the post-Napoleonic restoration.
