French Room

The death of Antonio in 1731 marked the end of the male line of the Farnese family, and Elisabeth, wife of Philip V, king of Spain, succeeded in having the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza assigned to her sons, don Carlo and don Filippo Bourbon. It is to this period of the Bourbon domination of Parma (1732-1802) and the fervid cultural climate characterized by the presence of French artists and workers that this room is dedicated. Thanks to the extraordinary political skill of Minister Guillaume Du Tillot and the marriage between Philip of Bourbon and Luisa Elisabetta, daughter of Louis XV, works of art, furniture, ideas came copiously from France, so that, on the one hand, it was possible to repair the ignominious damage to the Duke's residence perpetrated by don Carlo, and on the other to welcome, in this small state, the new stimuli of French culture, in view of its urban and artistic reorganization.