We're getting closer to Paris now, and our next stop is the royal palace at Versailles. It is a magnificent edifice, and today it is filled with people.
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| Hall of Mirrors |
Versailles is the palace of the Louis', starting way back with a hunting lodge built for Louis XIII in 1624. It is most closely associated with Louis XIV, who built much of what we see today and Louis XVI who was married to this lady, one of the Medici:
Marie Antoinette liked the palace, but apparently disliked much of the politics, and so spent as much time as she could further out on the estate at the Grand and Petite Trianon, as well as her village.
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| A Malachite bowl from Czar Alexander I to Napoleon |
Napolean also used the Grand Trianon as one of his residences.
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| The Grand Canal |
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