Central building with the clock is the original hunting lodge, the palace grew around it

The Mercury Room where the Sun King slept and coffin displayed for eight days.

Marie Antoinette's bedroom at the Palace

Looking out the window from the Hall of Mirrors toward the Grand Canal

Versailles Gardens and Fountains (originally 2,400!)

Versailles Palace and Gardens

11. juni 2023, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

The next day, we had booked tickets for entry into the Palace at 10 am. The palace was is Baroque throughout; that was the style at the time of the French Revolution in 1789 . Notables were the Hercules Room, the Salon of Abundance with a painting of the Dauphin (young Louis XV) the Venus Room with a sculpture of Louis XIV as emperor, the Mercury Room where he slept. Bed commissioned by King Louis Phillip D Orleans, when the Palace was commissioned as a museum in 1833.Les mer

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