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The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
The Palace of Versailles Research Centre (in French: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles - CRCV) is the first research centre established in a French palace. [1] It originated as part of a French government project called "Digital Great Versailles" (in French, "Grand Versailles Numérique") to improve public access to the Palace of ...
The Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles (French: Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles) is a French public establishment founded in 1995, and working under the supervision of the French Ministry of Culture, in order to administer the Palace of Versailles.
(April 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The galerie des Batailles One of the salles des Croisades The Musée de l'Histoire de France ( French pronunciation: [myze də listwaʁ də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ , useum of French History) is a museum that was created by King Louis Philippe I in the Palace of Versailles and opened in 1837.
Description sommaire de Versailles ancienne et nouvelle. Paris: A. Chrétien. Copy at INHA. Fromageot, Paul-Henri (1903). "Le Château de Versailles en 1795, d'après le journal de Hugues Lagarde", Revue de l'histoire de Versailles, pp. 224–240 (at the Internet Archive). Garrigues, Dominique (2001). Jardins et jardiniers de Versailles au ...
The Château de Versailles (Pavillon Dufour) in the spring of 2006. Only in 1911 did Versailles definitely recover its level of population of 1789, with 60,458 inhabitants at the 1911 census. [ 13 ] In 1919, at the end of the First World War, Versailles came into the limelight again as the various treaties ending the war were signed in the ...
The Galerie des Batailles (French: [ɡalʁi de bataj]; English: "Gallery of Battles") is a gallery occupying the first floor of the Aile du Midi of the Palace of Versailles, joining onto the grand and petit appartement de la reine. 120 m (390 ft) long and 13 m (43 ft) wide, it is an epigone of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre and was intended ...
Piganiol de la Force and Jean-Aymar, Nouvelle description des châteaux et parcs de Versailles et Marly, Paris: Chez Florentin de la lune, 1701; Verlet, Pierre, Le château de Versailles, Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1985; Ward, William Henry ([1926]). The Architecture of the Renaissance in France (2 volumes). New York: C. Scribner & Sons.