The Palace of Versailles, known as château de Versailles in French, is a paragon of Baroque architecture that once served as a royal residence and the de facto capital of France—but its beginnings are ...

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles quarters are reopening to the public, including the Gold Room. Photo: T. Garnier. Courtesy of Château de Versailles. Shortly after her arrival in Versailles in 1770 to ...

The private apartment was accessed by Marie Antoinette through a secret door A number of items which belonged to her are also on display The apartment includes a boudoir, library and billiard room The ...

A bedroom fit for royals in 18th Century France. Engraving/illustration from the book "The XVIIIth Century: France 1700-1789", published in 1876. The Palace of Versailles is one of France’s most ...

This place is something else, a kingdom of rococo, gilt and glamour – everything is huge and excessive, as you’d expect of a 14-bedroom hotel in the Palace of Versailles. Three historic buildings have ...