Le Chateau de Versailles

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Le Chateau de Versailles
Le Chateau de Versailles

• By Blair Barone

By Lisette Barone
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France
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Le Chateau de Versailles

• Le chateau de Versailles is a famous museum
  outside of Paris.
• It is one of the most visited monuments in France.

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Le chateau de Versailles

• Before Le chateau de
• Versailles Was a palace,
• it was a Modest hunting
• lodge.
• Louis XIV stated he was
• building palace in 1660
• and it was finished in 1715.
• It was to replace the Louvre which at the time
  was going to be Louis XIV palace.
• Until 1789 it was the political heart of France.

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Grand Trianon

• The Grand Trianon was built in 1687 and was Louis
  XIV summer retreat.
• The Grand Trianon was also known as the Marble
  Trianon.

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Petit Trianon

• The Petit Trianon was built for Madame du Barry
  the mistress of Louis XV.

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The Gardens

• The gardens were designed and built between 1661
  and 1700.
• Everything in the gardens are symmetrical.
• They cover almost 250 acres of land.

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Le Chateau De Versailles
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Famous Rooms

• The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the hall
  of mirrors ending the French Revolution.
• Hall of Mirrors
• Napoleon and his wife had
• a room in the palace of
• Versailles.
• Most of the furniture in his room was auctioned
  off during the French Revolution

Hall of Mirrors
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Famous rooms

• The Queens bed chamber still looks like it was
  when Marie Antoinette was living there.

Napoleon's bedroom

• The kings room was so richly decorated it had
  famous pieces of artwork set into the wood
  paneling.

The Queens Room
Kings room
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Famous rooms

• Louis the XIV, XI, and XVI all attended mass
  everyday in this chapel Royal.

• Every single inch of stone in the chapel was
  delicately carved.
• The only thing colored in the chapel was the
  marble floor and the ceiling.

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Famous Rooms

• It was only in 1770 that the Opera house
  was made.

• Louis the XVI and Marie Antoinette were the
  first people to get married there.

• The Opera house was so big that 10,000 candles
  were used to light it each night.

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Claim to Fame

• Its a big part of Frances History.
• kings used to live there.
• A lot of important govern-
• ment decisions were made
• there.

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Interesting Facts

• Back when the Kings were living there 25 of the
  entire nations income was used to maintain
  Versailles.
• Each room in Versailles is Dedicated to an
  Olympian city.
• The town of Versailles around the Palate was used
  to lodge the people that helped the king.
• Most of the Palace can only be viewed from a
  guided tour.

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Bibliography

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  versailles.htm
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  _groves.php
• The National Geographic Traveler France
• Rosemary Bailey
• Paris
• Alan Tillier
• Doling Kindersley Travel Guide