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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, France.
The main construction of Versailles took place in four campaigns between 1664 and 1710 Palace of Versailles, the building's evolution. The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France.
The Trianon de Porcelaine (French pronunciation: [tʁijanɔ̃ də pɔʁsəlɛn]; French for Porcelain Trianon) was a short-lived structure constructed near the Palace of Versailles, and is considered to be the first Chinoiserie building in Europe.
Napoleon lived at Trianon with his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria. The next royals to live at the Grand Trianon were the King and Queen of the French – Louis Philippe I and his Italian wife Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies. He was a descendant of the Regent Philippe d'Orléans, and she was a niece of Marie Antoinette.
The Château de Versailles, completion of the curial system in France. The French court ("Cour de France" in French), often simply “la cour”, refers to the group of people, known as courtiers, who lived in the direct entourage of the king or, under the First and Second Empires, the emperor.
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 ...
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Nobles from many European courts imitated the splendor of Versailles by creating their own menagerie. These included the Château de Chantilly in 1663, the Het Loo Palace in the Netherlands in 1672, the Belém Palace in Lisbon in 1726, the Retiro Park in Madrid in 1774, the Belvedere Palace in Vienna in 1716 and the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam.