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Plan of the French Pavilion based on old prints and drawings by Claude-Louis Châtelet, updated after the latest restorations. The pavilion is called "French" because of its location in the centre of the formal garden. [39] It is a model of Rococo architecture. Its plan is centred, in the shape of a St Andrew's cross.
Five subsidiary structures located near the Palace of Versailles have a historical relation with the history and evolution of the palace. Of these five structures – the Ménagerie, the Pavillon de la Lanterne, the Trianon de Porcelaine, the Grand Trianon (also called the Marble Trianon), and the Petit Trianon – two have been destroyed (the Ménagerie and the Trianon de Porcelaine); however ...
As early as 1749, a menagerie, consisting simply of a farmyard and a stable, was built on the north-eastern plots of Mansart's château, and, in the center of a new french formal garden, a first pavilion was erected for games, snacks and concerts: the French Pavilion. [a 1] Ange-Jacques Gabriel's design for a "trellis cabinet for Trianon", 1751.
Between 1663 and 1665, Louis XIV purchased the hamlet of Trianon, on the outskirts of Versailles.In 1670, he commissioned the architect Louis Le Vau to design a porcelain pavilion (Trianon de porcelaine) to be built there.
Four pavilions were built for the Secretaries of State in 1671. Jules Hardouin-Mansart had the Ministers' wings built on the basis of these pavilions in 1679. [1] The soberly ornamented Ministers' Wings, attached to the château, mark the end of the era of all-powerful ministers such as Fouquet, who defied the king with the construction of his château at Vaux-le-Vicomte.
[2] [3] It is located in the Jussieu pavilion, near the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon, on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, which is in the Île-de-France region of France. The Centre serves as a resource to scholars and curators researching European court culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [ 1 ]
The Salon d'Hercule (French pronunciation: [salɔ̃ dɛʁkyl]; also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the Royal Chapel in the North Wing of the château with the grand appartement du roi.
The Royal Gate of the Palace of Versailles separates the Cour d'Honneur from the Royal Court of the Palace of Versailles.It is also located between the Pavillon Dufour (on the left as you enter), built under Louis XVIII and currently used to welcome visitors to the château, and the Gabriel wing (on the right), whose construction began in 1772, but which was not completed until 1985.