The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a suburb
The main construction of Versailles took place in four campaigns between 1664 and 1710
Statue of Louis XIV in Versailles
The château circa 1668, as painted by Pierre Patel (Versailles Museum)
View of the garden front, 1674, after the second building capmpaign, engraving by Israël Silvestre
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The Tuileries Palace was a palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the Seine, directly in the west-front of the Louvre Palace. It was the Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henr
History of the Palace of Versailles
…order to restore the appearance of the façade as it existed under Louis XIV. On 6 October 1789, the royal family had to leave Versailles and move to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, as a result of the Women's March on Versailles. During the early years of the French Revolution, preservation of the palace was largely in…
The Tuileries Palace from the Solférino Bridge, mid 19th century. The Pavillon de Flore is to the right
Anonymous watercolour (c. 1650, BnF), showing (from left to right) Philibert de l'Orme's two symmetric wings flanking the staircase pavilion with a dome likely added by Henri IV; the Bullant Pavilion; and the Petite Galerie des Tuileries and Pavillon de Flore, both constructed under Henri IV
The Tuileries Palace (in foreground) and its garden, in plan engraved by Matthäus Merian the Elder in 1615
The Tuileries Palace in the 17th century