a painting of two people standing at the entrance to a cave with an ocean view
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Hubert Robert | The Mouth of a Cave | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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