Parc-aux-Cerfs

[1] The name is most notoriously known in history for an area in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles and a house there owned by Louis XV, where his secret mistresses were accommodated, being taken from there to the palace to visit the king.

According to the myth, the arrangement was supervised by the king's official mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who remained close to him, but no longer had a physical relationship with him.

Nancy Mitford states in the 1968 revised edition of her biography Madame de Pompadour that "[she] had nothing whatever to do with it".

[2] The lovers were in fact recruited by the king's valet de chambre, Dominique Guillaume Lebel.

[3] Between 1752 and 1768, many women and girls lived in the house, often more than one at a time, many of whom are unidentified.