The bathing pool

Places that you can imagine Titania and her army of fairies inhabiting, frolicking amongst bluebells and mossy hills.

“The Bathing Pool” (1753) - Hubert Robert

Painting from Hubert Robert

Filled with heated salt water, the Roman Bath extends into a circular tower where, at a push of a button, a torrential shower is released from the top of a tall turret

The Prefects' Bathroom[2] was a special bathroom on the fifth floor of Hogwarts restricted to use by school Prefects, Head Boys, Head Girls and Quidditch captains.[1] During the 1994–1995 school year, it was located on the fifth floor behind the fourth door to the left of a statue of Boris the Bewildered, which only opened when given the correct password.[3] In one side of the room there were stalls with toilets inside.[3] Opposite the toilets, there was a large, swimming pool-like tub…

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In 1777, Charles Philippe, comte d’Artois (1757–1836), the youngest brother of Louis XVI who became Charles X of France, made a wager with Marie Antoinette. He bet that he could cause to be built a small château, or folie, to be called Bagatelle, while the court was absent from Versailles at Fontainebleau

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french art, rococo, neoclassical