In 1698 Louis XIV presented a private zoo in the grounds of Versailles to Marie-AdŽlaide of Savoy, the recently arrived twelve year old bride of his eldest grandson Louis, duc de Bourgogne. The rooms were remodelled in small, intimate sequences that were decorated with paintings by a number of artists, and decorative grotesques by Claude III Audran, which variously represented childrem playing, mythological imagery, and fables by La Fontaine. Louis XIV was determined that the redecoration should please Marie-AdŽlaide and famously directed Ôil faut de l'enfance rŽpandue partoutŐ: there must be youthfulness throughout. This paper will consider the various ways in which the MŽnagerie program reflected this directiveŃwith a focus on Claude III AudranŃand in particular consider the program's connection with aspects of Marie-AdŽlaide's educational milieu at Versailles.