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| French palace on the outskirts of Paris | WIKI |
| For the extensive park around the palace, see Gardens of Versailles. | WIKI |
| A simple hunting lodge and later a small chxc3xa2teau with a moat occupied the site until 1661, when the first work expanding the chxc3xa2teau into a palace was carried out for Louis XIV. | WIKI |
| In 1682, when the palace had become large enough, the king moved the entire royal court and the French government to Versailles. | WIKI |
| Some of the palace furniture at this time was constructed of solid silver, but in 1689 much of it was melted down to pay for the cost of war. | WIKI |
| The palace has also been a site of historical importance. | WIKI |
| The Peace of Paris (1783) was signed at Versailles, the Proclamation of the German Empire occurred in the vaunted Hall of Mirrors, and World War I was ended in the palace with the Treaty of Versailles, among many other events. | WIKI |
| The palace is now a historical monument and UNESCO World Heritage site, notable especially for the ceremonial Hall of Mirrors, the jewel-like Royal Opera, and the royal apartments; for the more intimate royal residences, the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon located within the park; the small rustic Hameau (Hamlet) created for Marie Antoinette; and the vast Gardens of Versailles with fountains, canals, and geometric flower beds and groves, laid out by Andrxc3xa9 le Nxc3xb4tre. | WIKI |
| The Palace was stripped of all its furnishings after the French Revolution, but many pieces have been returned and many of the palace rooms have been restored. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 The palace of Louis XIV 1.2 Enlargement of the Palace (1678xe2x80x931715) 1.3 The Palace of Louis XV 1.4 Louis XVI, and the Palace during the Revolution 1.5 19th century xe2x80x93 history museum and government venue 1.6 20th century 1.7 21st century 2 Ownership and management 3 Architecture and plan 4 Royal Apartments 4.1 Ambassador's Staircase 4.2 The State Apartments of the King 4.2.1 The Salon of Hercules 4.2.2 The Salon of Abundance 4.2.3 The Salon of Venus 4.2.4 The Salon of Mercury 4.2.5 The Salon of Mars 4.2.6 The Salon of Apollo 4.2.7 The Salon of Diana 4.3 Private apartments of the King and Queen 4.3.1 Private apartments of the King 4.3.2 Private apartments of The Queen 5 The Grand Gallery 5.1 The War Salon 5.2 The Hall of Mirrors 5.3 The Peace Salon 6 Royal Chapel 7 Royal Opera 8 Museum of the History of France 9 Gardens and fountains 9.1 The Parterre d'Eau and the Parterre and Fountain of Latona 9.2 Fountain of the Chariot of Apollo and the Grand Canal 9.3 North Parterre, Dragon Basin, and Basin of Neptune 9.4 South Parterre and the Orangerie 9.5 The Fountains and the shortage of water 9.5.1 Sanitation 10 The Bosquets or Groves 11 The Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon 12 The Hamlet of Marie Antoinette 13 Modern Political and ceremonial functions 14 Cost 15 Gallery 16 See also 17 Notes 17.1 Citations 18 References 18.1 Web sources 19 Further reading 20 External links | WIKI |
| In July 1661, Louis XIV had visited the Chxc3xa2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fouquet's palatial residence, and was impressed by the palace and gardens. | WIKI |
| [22] In 1651, Louis XIV made his first visit to Versailles,[8] and a decade later made the decision to enlarge his father's chxc3xa2teau into a palace, a task he gave to Le Vau. | WIKI |
| The main floor (above the ground floor) of the new palace contained two symmetrical sets of apartments, one for the king and the other for the queen, looking over the gardens. | WIKI |
| Enlargement of the Palace (1678xe2x80x931715)[edit] | WIKI |
| [35] He also replaced Le Vau's large terrace, facing the garden on the west, with what became the most famous room of the palace, the Hall of Mirrors. | WIKI |
| In 1682 Louis XIV was able to proclaim Versailles his principal residence and the seat of the government and was able to give rooms in the palace to almost all of his courtiers. | WIKI |
| After the death of Maria Theresa of Spain in 1683, Louis XIV undertook the enlargement and remodeling of the royal apartments in the original part of the palace, within the former hunting lodge built by his father. | WIKI |
| He instructed Mansart to begin the construction of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, which towered over the rest of the palace. | WIKI |
| His main contributions were the construction of the Salon of Hercules, which connected the main building of the Palace with the north wing and the chapel (1724xe2x80x9336); and the royal opera theater, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, and built between 1769 and 1770. | WIKI |
| He discreetly provided accommodations in another part of the palace for his famous mistresses, Madame de Pompadour and later Madame du Barry. | WIKI |
| The extension of the King's petit appartement necessitated the demolition of the Ambassador's Staircase, one of the most admired features of Louis XIV's palace, which left the Palace without a grand staircase entrance. | WIKI |
| Louis XVI, and the Palace during the Revolution[edit] | WIKI |
| Louis XVI was constrained by the worsening financial situation of the kingdom from making major changes to the palace, so that he primarily focused on improvements to the royal apartments. | WIKI |
| In 1783, the Palace was the site of the signing of three treaties of the Peace of Paris (1783), in which the United Kingdom recognized the independence of the United States. | WIKI |
| The King and Queen learned of the storming of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, while they were at the Palace, and remained isolated there as the Revolution in Paris spread. | WIKI |
| They took weapons from the city armory, besieged the Palace, and compelled the King and Royal family and the members of the National Assembly to return with them to Paris the following day. | WIKI |
| As soon as the royal family departed, the Palace was closed, awaiting their returnxe2x80x94but in fact, the monarchy would never again return to Versailles. | WIKI |
| In 1792, the Convention, the new revolutionary government, ordered the transfer of all the paintings and sculptures from the Palace to the Louvre. | WIKI |
| In 1793, the Convention declared the abolition of the monarchy, and ordered all of the royal property in the Palace to be sold at auction. | WIKI |
| The furnishings and art of the Palace, including the furniture, mirrors, baths and kitchen equipment, were sold in seventeen thousand lots. | WIKI |
| Emperor Napoleon III used the Palace on occasion as a stage for grand ceremonies. | WIKI |
| During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870xe2x80x931871, the Palace was occupied by the general staff of the victorious German Army. | WIKI |
| The Germans remained in the Palace until the signing of the armistice in March 1871. | WIKI |
| In that month, the government of the new Third French Republic, which had departed Paris during the War for Tours and then Bordeaux, moved into the Palace. | WIKI |
| In 1875 a second parliamentary body, the French Senate, was created, and held its meetings for the election of a President of the Republic in a new hall created in 1876 in the south wing of the Palace. | WIKI |
| The French Senate continues to meet in the Palace on special occasions, such as the amendment of the French Constitution. | WIKI |
| The end of the 19th and the early 20th century saw the beginning of restoration efforts at the Palace, first led by Pierre de Nolhac, poet and scholar and the first conservator, who began his work in 1892. | WIKI |
| The Palace briefly returned to the world stage in June 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War, was signed in the Hall of Mirrors. | WIKI |
| Between 1925 and 1928, the American philanthropist and multi-millionaire John D. Rockefeller gave $2,166,000, the equivalent of about thirty million dollars today, to restore and refurnish the palace. | WIKI |
| In 1978, parts of the Palace were heavily damaged in a bombing committed by Breton terrorists. | WIKI |
| Starting in the 1950s, when the museum of Versailles was under the directorship of Gxc3xa9rald van der Kemp, the objective was to restore the palace to its statexc2xa0xe2x80x93 or as close to it as possiblexc2xa0xe2x80x93 in 1789 when the royal family left the palace. | WIKI |
| [55] After the war when Soviet authorities were restoring the palace, which had been gutted by the retreating Nazi forces, they recreated the silk fabrics by using preserved 18th-century remnants. | WIKI |
| Consequently, because furniture with a royal provenancexc2xa0xe2x80x93 and especially furniture that was made for Versaillesxc2xa0xe2x80x93 is a highly sought after commodity on the international market, the museum has spent considerable funds on retrieving much of the palace's original furnishings. | WIKI |
| Its formal title is the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles Since 1995, it has been run as a Public Establishment, with an independent administration and management supervised by the French Ministry of Culture. | WIKI |
| The palace was largely completed by the death of Louis XIV in 1715. | WIKI |
| The eastern facing palace has a U-shaped layout, with the corps de logis and symmetrical advancing secondary wings terminating with the Dufour Pavilion on the south and the Gabriel Pavilion to the north, creating an expansive cour d'honneur known as the Royal Court (Cour Royale). | WIKI |
| [61] Covered by around a million square feet (10 hectares) of roof, the palace has 2,143 windows, 1,252 chimneys, and 67 staircases. | WIKI |
| Plan of the main floor in the central part of the palace (c. 1742),[64] showing the grand appartement du roi in dark blue, the appartement du roi in medium blue, the petit appartement du roi in light blue, the grand appartement de la reine in yellow, and the petit appartement de la reine in red | WIKI |
| Le Vau's design for the state apartments closely followed Italian models of the day, including the placement of the apartments on the main floor (the piano nobile, the next floor up from the ground level), a convention the architect borrowed from Italian palace design. | WIKI |
| The Salon of Mercury was the original State Bedchamber when Louis XIV officially moved the court and government to the Palace in 1682. | WIKI |
| The bed is a replica of the original commissioned by King Louis-Philippe in the 19th century when he turned the Palace into a Museum. | WIKI |
| Royal Chapel seen from the ground floor The Royal Chapel, seen from the Royal Gallery The Royal Chapel, the tallest building of the Palace Altar and organ of the Royal Chapel Glory holding a portrait of Louis XV, by Antoine Vassxc3xa9, in the chapel vestibule | WIKI |
| Shortly after becoming King in 1830, Louis Philippe I decided to transform the Palace into a museum devoted to "All the Glories of France," with paintings and sculpture depicting famous French victories and heroes. | WIKI |
| Most of the apartments of the palace were entirely demolished (in the main building, practically all of the apartments were annihilated, with only the apartments of the king and queen remaining almost intact), and turned into a series of several large rooms and galleries: the Coronation Room (whose original volume was left untouched by Louis-Philippe), which displays the celebrated painting of the coronation of Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David; the Hall of Battles; commemorating French victories with large-scale paintings; and the 1830 room, which celebrated Louis-Philippe's own coming to power in the French Revolution of 1830. | WIKI |
| A monumental painting by Vernet features Louis Philippe himself, with his sons, posing in front of the gates of the Palace. | WIKI |
| In recent years, eleven rooms on the ground floor between the Chapel and the Opera have been turned into a history of the palace, with audiovisual displays and models. | WIKI |
| They were originally designed to be viewed from the terrace on the west side of the palace, and to create a grand perspective that reached to the horizon, illustrating the king's complete dominance over nature. | WIKI |
| The features closest to the Palace are the two water parterres, large pools which reflect the faxc3xa7ade of the palace. | WIKI |
| The Grand Perspective of the palace continues from the Fountain of Latona south along a grassy lane, the Tapis Vert or green carpet, to the Basin of the Chariot of Apollo. | WIKI |
| Apollo, the sun god, was the emblem of Louis XIV, featured in much of the decoration of the palace. | WIKI |
| The Orangerie is located beneath the main terrace of the palace, on which the North and South Parterres rest. | WIKI |
| The site of the Palace itself is 490xc2xa0ft (150xc2xa0m) above sea level, with the nearest body of water capable of supplying the gardens and court being the Seine River, 6 miles (9.7xc2xa0km) north. | WIKI |
| In the time of Louis XIV, even the palace, with its thousands of inhabitants, was continually short of fresh drinking water, necessitating the relocation of the court periodically to the palaces of Fontainebleau or Compixc3xa8gne. | WIKI |
| During the reign of Louis XIV and most of the reign of Louis XV, there was no plumbing to speak of in the palace itself. | WIKI |
| [105] Although it was forbidden to dump the contents of these chamber pots out of windows, the practice persisted in the inner courts of the palace. | WIKI |
| Most of Versailles' inhabitants used communal latrines located throughout the palace, off the main galleries or at the end of the residential corridors on the upper floors. | WIKI |
| As always, the royal family and high-ranking courtiers within the palace had superior hygienic arrangements at their disposal. | WIKI |
| In 1668 Louis XIV decided to build a smaller palace some distance from the main palace, where he could spend quieter time away from the crowds and formality of his Court. | WIKI |
| The palace still serves political functions. | WIKI |
| Owing to the nature of the construction of Versailles and the evolution of the role of the palace, construction costs were essentially a private matter. | WIKI |
| The Gobelins were charged with all decoration needs of the palace, which was under the direction of Charles Le Brun. | WIKI |
| While the decoration of the palace was costly, certain other costs were minimised. | WIKI |
| Additionally, given the quality and uniqueness of the items produced at the Gobelins for use and display at Versailles, the palace served as a venue to showcase not only the success of Colbert's mercantilism, but also to display the finest that France could produce. | WIKI |
| Located in the xc3x8ele-de-France region, south-west of Paris, privileged place both of residence and the exercise of power of the French monarchy from Louis XIV to Louis XVI, the Palace and Park of Versailles, built and embellished by several generations of architects, sculptors, painters, ornamentalists and landscape artists, represented for Europe for more than a century, the perfect model of a royal residence. | UNESCO |
| The inscribed property includes the zone enclosing the prestigious ensemble of the Palace, the Trianon chxc3xa2teaux and their gardens, as well as a narrow band of land offering the perspective from the extremity of the Grand Canal. | UNESCO |
| The gardens that complete the Palace, developed during the construction process of the ensemble, were designed by Le Nxc3xb4tre, creator of the typology of the French-style garden, an open system of axial pathways extending as far as the eye can see and punctuated with flowers and low hedges, flower beds, small streams, large lakes and fountains. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): The ensemble of the Palace and Park of Versailles constitutes a unique artistic realisation, by virtue not only of its size but also of its quality and originality. | UNESCO |
| The Palace and Park of Versailles lost their function with the Revolution, but the ensemble was conserved by the State and transformed into a museum at the beginning of the 19th century. | UNESCO |
| Since then, the transfer of buildings and land has enabled the partial restitution of the coherence of the Palace and Park of Versailles: the most important being the Grand Commun, Grande xc3x89curie (Stables) and the Mortemets, the Midi Wing and the Place dxe2x80x99Armes. | UNESCO |
| The Revolution and its consequences caused destruction and dispersion at Versailles, while the transformation of the Palace into a museum, in the 19th century, brought about new decorations and new spaces. | UNESCO |
| State-owned, the Palace and Park of Versailles are fully listed under Historic Monuments. | UNESCO |
| From there, the Royal Star prolonged the great perspective of the Palace over five kilometres through the kingxe2x80x99s hunting forest. | UNESCO |