The palace of versailles,built and embellished by several generations of the foremost French architects ,sculptors ,decorators and landscape

architects ,was one of the largest royal palaces in the world and provided the ideal royal residence for over a century.

THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF PALACE OF VERSAILLES

The prestigious ensemble of palace , the trianons and the Park of Versailles is the result of a century a half of works commissioned by the kings of France and entrusted to their greatest artists . Versailles was the principal residence of French kings from Louis XIV to Louis XVI from 1682-1789 and became both the source and symbol of absolute royal power during the ancien regime.

The modest brick and stone chateau that the ordered built in1623 was two storey's tall and surrounded by a moat. It is a sober and colossal architecture , homogenous and majestic that is inspirable even today from the memory of the sun king, Louis XIV . The gardens were developed along the general construction. It is punctuated geometrically by parterres of flowers and low hedges , little streams , large ponds and fountain.

HISTORY
The orangerie and the grand trianon are the work of Jules hardouin mansart , who was assisted by Robert de cotte in the construction of the royal chapel , a masterpiece of French baroque. The creations at Versailles during the eighteenth century are among the most perfect and most celebrated realizations of the Louis XV and Louis XVI: the petit trianon by jaquesange Gabriel ,the decoration of the apartments of Louis XV by Verbeck and Rousseau , and the apartments and the hameau of Marie Antoinette by mique .

LOCATION
It is located in Paris in France. Versailles was originally a small village some 20 km southwest of Paris , set in a wooded region chosen by Louis XIII as his personal hunting preserve. The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolutemonarchy of the Ancien Rgime.

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