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The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a suburb of Paris , some 20 kilometres southwest of the French capital.
Treaty of Versailles (1 C, 33 P) Pages in category "History of the Palace of Versailles" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Portrait of Jules Hardoun Mansart by Hyacinthe Rigaud, with Les Invalides in background. Jules Hardouin-Mansart (French pronunciation: [ʒyl aʁdwɛ̃ mɑ̃saʁ]; 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Grand Trianon of the ...
In 1741, Louis XV gifted the Grand Trianon to his wife Marie Leszczyńska. [6] Later, it was during a stay at Trianon that Louis XV fell ill before being transported to the Palace of Versailles, where he died on 10 May 1774. No more than his predecessor had, Louis XVI brought no structural modifications to the Grand Trianon.
Jacques Gabriel was a designer, painter and architect of the 17th and 18th centuries and one of the most prominent designers of the Palace of Versailles in his lifetime. For his unique creativity and selflessness, he was always attended by Louis XIV and eventually became a trusted advisor to the monarch.
Plan of the Palace of Versailles c. 1676 (before the third building campaign), with the Queen's grand apartment marked in yellow The Queen's bedchamber. There is a barely discernible hidden door in the corner near the jewel cabinet by Schwerdfeger (1787) through which Marie Antoinette escaped the night of 5/6 October 1789 when the Paris mob stormed Versailles.
The grand appartement du roi is the King's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles. As a result of Louis Le Vau 's envelope of Louis XIII ’s château, constructed as part of Louis XIV 's second building campaign (1669–1672), the King and Queen had new apartments in the new addition, known at the time as the château neuf (new palace).