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The royalty lived in this palace while Louie XVI reigned.
The palace is located in the middle of the estate. Neither
royalty or common people live there anymore. It is located
southeast of Paris and is now a tourist attraction for people all
over the world.





The Hall of Mirrors is where the treaty of
Versailles was signed on June 28th, 1919, which
sealed the end of the First World War. Since
then, the presidents of the Republic of France
continue to receive the official hosts of France
here.





At the start of the Queen’s staircase, also known
as the "marble staircase" you would walk into
the Guard room where day and night, twelve
bodyguards will stand there and make sure
nothing bad happens. The service of the
bodyguards, consisted in guarding the doors of
the apartments, taking up arms when the
princes passed, man the chapel during mass
and escort the dinners of the royal family.



The chamber is the main room of the
apartment, the one where the Queen spent
most of her time. She slept here, often
joined by the King. The décor retains the
memory of the three queens who occupied
the room. The ceiling dates back to to
when Queen Marie-Thérèse reigned, but the
monochrome paintings by Boucher were
produced for Marie Leszczinska, as were
the wood panels.



In 1701 Louis XIV moved his bedchamber into
the drawing room lying east-west in the Palace
facing the rising sun. The chamber’s opulent
decor of gold and silver brocade on a crimson
ground forms a backdrop to paintings chosen by
Louis XIV: The Four Evangelists and Paying
Caesar’s Taxes by Le Valentin and Giovanni
Lanfranco on the upper walls, Saint John the
Baptist by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo above
the door, Mary Magdalene by Le Dominiquin and
two portraits of Antoon Van Dyck.



Louis XIV only used this chapel for five years since it was
only completed in 1710. The one he went to most often,
built in 1682 on the site of the Hercules Salon, quickly
proved to be too cramped. The wars however delayed the
construction of the large chapel, opened in 1689 by
Hardouin-Mansart. Each day, generally at 10 a.m., the
Court would attend the king’s mass. The king would sit in
the royal gallery, surrounded by his family. The ladies of
the Court occupied the side galleries. The “officers” and
the public sat in the nave. The king would only go down
to the nave for important religious celebrations during
which he received communion, for the Order of the Holy
Spirit
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This book was created and published on StoryJumper™
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The royalty lived in this palace while Louie XVI reigned.
The palace is located in the middle of the estate. Neither
royalty or common people live there anymore. It is located
southeast of Paris and is now a tourist attraction for people all
over the world.




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