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Marie Anne entertained in the building, which became known as the Hôtel de Conti. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After Marie Anne sold the building to a property speculator in 1715, it was acquired by King Louis XV to accommodate the Grand-Maître (head of the royal household), Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon , in 1723.
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.
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Château de Launay, Orsay. Paris XI University seat. Château de Leuville, Leuville-sur-Orge. Château de Limon, Vauhallan. Château de Lormoy, Longpont-sur-Orge. Nursing home. Château du Marais, au Val-Saint-Germain. Place of death of Gaston Palewski, French politician. French Historic Monument. Accessible. Château de la Martinière, Saclay.
Le Grand Trianon: Un palais privé à l'ombre de Versailles (préf. Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel et Jean-Jacques Aillagon). Lathuile/Versailles: Éditions du Gui. ISBN 978-2-9517417-8-2. Ledoux-Lebard, Denise (1989). Versailles, le Petit Trianon : Le mobilier des inventaires de 1807, 1810 et 1839, (préf. Yves Bottineau). Paris: Les éditions de ...
At the end of the decade, it was redeveloped to house a 600-seat auditorium, restaurants, shops and a luxury goods innovation center. [7] No. 4: Versailles town hall (Hôtel de ville de Versailles, in french). No. 6: Pavillon des Gendarmes, listed as a historic monument by decree of May 9, 1911; [8] No. 11 and no. 13: Hôtel de préfecture des ...
Histoire du Château de Versailles. Versailles Sous Louis XIV. (2 volumes). Paris: André Marty. OCLC 817037275. Vol. 2 at HathiTrust. Nolhac, Pierre de (1918). Histoire du Château de Versailles. Versailles au VIIIe siècle. Paris: Émile-Paul Frères. OCLC 897084052. Copy at Google Books. Oppermann, Fabien (2004). Images et usages du château ...
By virtue of an order issued by the Versailles district directorate in August 1794, the Royal Gate was destroyed, the Cour Royale was cleared and the Cour de Marbre lost its precious floor. [4] [5] In 1838, an equestrian statue of Louis XIV was installed in its place as part of the creation of the Museum of the History of France by Louis ...