Versailles, France - Palace of Versailles (2018)
The Palace of Versailles (French: Château de Versailles) was the principal residence of the Kings of France from Louis XIV in 1682 until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. It is located in the Yvelines Department of the Île-de-France region, about twenty kilometers (14 miles) southwest of the centre of Paris.
The Palace is now a French Historic Monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, notable especially for the ceremonial Hall of Mirrors, the jewel-like Opera theater, and royal apartments; for the more intimate royal residences, the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon located within the park; the small rustic hamlet created for Marie Antoinette; and the vast Gardens of Versailles with fountains, canals, and geometric flower beds and groves, laid out by André le Nôtre. The Palace was stripped of all its furnishings after the French Revolution, but many pieces have been returned and many of the palace rooms have been restored.
Royal Serenade in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles
Relive the scintillating times of Louis XIV's reign by discovering the the Palace of Versailles Hall of Mirrors to the sound of a serenade. Dressed in Baroque costume, the artists re-enact little scenes retracing the habits and customs of the 17th-century French court.
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This great hall is one of the most remarkable features at Versailles. Built by King Louis XIV starting around 1678, the room has played a pivotal role in history. Kings used it for major functions, and in recent history, the Treaty of Versailles was signed there that ended World War I.
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The Palace of Versailles, or Château de Versailles in French, was the principal royal residence from 1682 to 1789.The site was a hunting spot for Henry IV who began hunting there in 1589 when it was only a small village with plentiful game. Louis XIII, son of Henry IV, loved the village, landscape and hunting. Upon his rise to the throne, he began buying land in Versailles and erected a modest, by royal standards, 2 story hunting lodge.
While staying at the lodge a plot to overthrow his government led by his Mother, Marie de' Medici, was foiled. It was then that he decided to turn his simple hunting lodge into a château worthy of a King. After purchasing more of the surrounding land, Louis XIII began construction of a brick and stone château designed by architect Philibert Le Roy. The gardens and parks of the original Palace of Versailles were expanded to the size that they are today.
At the age of twelve in 1651, Louis XIV went on a hunting trip to the Palace of Versailles. Nearly 10 years later Louis XIV took a passionate interest in the Palace of Versailles. He decided to embellish it as a retreat for his family and to be the site for elaborate entertaining worthy of French Royalty.
The expansion of the Palace of Versailles under Louis XIV was performed in phases over decades. The first expansion was begun in 1661 and not completed until 1678. After adding two wings to the forecourt, one for servants and one for kitchens, the next undertaking began in 1668. It added three wings to the growing palace. Built on the garden site of the original château, these three wings constructed of stone became known as the envelope. During this construction the King embellished the gardens with a wish to make them the most magnificent gardens in Europe.
Working with landscape designer André Le Nôtre, Louis XIV approved Italian style grottos, fountains, basins, canals, flower beds, groves of trees along with an immense orangerie to house fruit trees. A zoo with a central pavilion for exotic animals was added completing the main renovations of the garden area.
Separated by a marble terrace on the second floor were two apartments, one for the King and one for the Queen which overlooked the gardens. Each apartment had seven rooms which were connected to the main floor by ceremonial staircases. Under the King’s apartment was one designed with the theme of Apollo, which the King had taken as his emblem. Under the Queen’s apartment was one for the heir apparent. Interior decorations, art, furnishings along with embellishments were always being undertaken at the Palace of Versailles.
The King spent more and more of his time at the Palace which meant more staff added to the Palace grounds. By 1678 almost 7000 people inhabited the area of the Palace. This led to the next major expansion of the Palace of Versailles which was completed in 1715. This expansion included two large new wings along with the replacement of the terrace built by Le Vau's which overlooked the gardens. This replacement included what is the most famous room in the Palace, the Hall of Mirrors, where the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I was signed.
Today, Château de Versailles attracts over 7 million visitors a year. This expansive palace with its gardens, art work, historic furnishings, gardens along with ancillary buildings cannot be entirely seen in one day. There are many ticket choices for visiting this over 800 hectares grand palace. For visitors the Estate has been broken down into sections with various ticket options which give access to self-guided as well as guided tours.
Specific parts of Château de Versailles that can be visited include:
• The Palace
• The Hall of Mirrors
• The King’s State Apartments
• The Gallery of Great Battles
• The Gardens
• The Fountains
• Parterres and Paths
• The Groves
• The Estate of Trianon
• The Grand Trianon
• The Petit Trianon
• The English Gardens
• The Royal Stables
• The Gallery of Coaches
• National Equestrian Academy of Estate of Versailles
A visit to the Palace of Versailles encompasses the study of art, architecture, landscape design, a trip to the late 1600s – early 1700s, a look at the most renowned Château in the world, as well as an intimate look at the life of Louis XIV.
HALL OF MIRRORS (VERSAILLES)
Places to see in ( Versailles - France ) The Hall of Mirrors
Places to see in ( Versailles - France ) The Hall of Mirrors
The Hall of Mirrors is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. As the principal and most remarkable feature of King Louis XIV of France's third building campaign of the Palace of Versailles (1678–1684), construction of the Hall of Mirrors began in 1678. To provide for the Hall of Mirrors as well as the salon de la guerre and the salon de la paix, which connect the grand appartement du roi with the grand appartement de la reine, architect Jules Hardouin Mansart appropriated three rooms from each apartment as well as the terrace that separated the two apartments.
The principal feature of this hall is the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflect the seventeen arcaded windows that overlook the gardens. Each arch contains twenty-one mirrors with a total complement of 357 used in the decoration of the galerie des glaces. The arches themselves are fixed between marble pilasters whose capitals depict the symbols of France. These gilded bronze capitals include the fleur-de-lys and the Gallic cockerel or rooster. Many of the other attributes of the Hall of Mirrors were lost to war for financial purposes, such as the silver table pieces and guéridons, which were melted by order of Louis XIV in 1689 to finance the War of the League of Augsburg.
In the 17th century, mirrors were among the most expensive items to possess at the time; the Venetian Republic held the monopoly on the manufacture of mirrors. In order to maintain the integrity of his philosophy of mercantilism, which required that all items used in the decoration of Versailles be made in France, Jean-Baptiste Colbert enticed several workers from Venice to make mirrors at the Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs. According to legend, in order to keep its monopoly, the government of the Venetian Republic sent agents to France to poison the workers whom Colbert had brought to France.
The Hall of Mirrors' dimensions are 73.0 m × 10.5 m × 12.3 m (Length x Width x Height)(239.5 ft × 34.4 ft × 40.4 ft) and is flanked by the salon de la guerre (north) and the salon de la paix (south). Construction on the galerie and its two salons continued until 1684, at which time it was pressed into use for court and state functions. The ceiling decoration is dedicated to the political policies and military victories of Louis XIV. The central panel of the ceiling, Le roi gouverne par lui-même (The king governs alone), alludes to the establishment of the personal reign of Louis XIV in 1661. The present decorative schema represents the last of three that were presented to Louis XIV. The original decorative plan was to have depicted the exploits of Apollo, being consistent with the imagery associated with the Sun-King, Louis XIV. However, when the king learned that his brother, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, had commissioned Pierre Mignard to decorate the ceiling of the grande galerie of his brother's residence at Château de Saint-Cloud, Louis XIV rejected the plan. The next decorative plan was one in which the exploits of Hercules — as allegories to the actions of Louis XIV — were to be depicted. Again, as with the first plan, the Hercules theme was rejected by the king.
During the 17th century, the Hall of Mirrors was used daily by Louis XIV when he walked from his private apartment to the chapel. At this time, courtiers assembled to watch the king and members of the royal family pass, and might make a particular request by intoning: Sire, Marly?. This was the manner in which one was able to obtain a much sought-after invitation to one of the king's house parties at Marly-le-Roi, the villa Louis XIV built north of Versailles on the route to Saint-Germain-en-Laye. However, of all the events that transpired in this room during the reign of Louis XIV, the Siamese Embassy of 1685–1686 must be cited as the most opulent. At this time, the galerie des glaces and the grands appartements were still appointed with silver furniture. In February 1715, Louis XIV held his last embassy in the galerie des glaces, one in which he received Mehemet Reza Bey, ambassador of the Shah of Persia.
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The Grande Galerie (La Grande Galerie in French), as it was called in the 17th century, served daily as a passageway and a waiting and meeting place, frequented by courtiers and the visiting public.
After the victory over the three united powers, represented in the Salon de la Guerre (War Room) and cited on the previous page, the gallery’s seventy-three metres glorified the political, economic and artistic success of France. Political success is demonstrated by thirty compositions in the arch painted by Le Brun, which illustrate the glorious history of Louis XIV in the first eighteen years of his government, from 1661 until the Peace of Nijmegen. Military and diplomatic victories, as well as reforms in view of the reorganisation of the kingdom, are portrayed in the form of antique allegories. Economic prosperity is demonstrated by the dimensions and quantity of the three hundred and fifty-seven mirrors that decorate the seventeen arches opposite the windows, attesting that the new French production of mirrors, which at the time were luxury objects, is capable of stealing the monopoly away from Venice. Artistic success: the Rance marble pilasters decorated with a model of gilded bronze capitals called “French order”; created by Le Brun at the request of Colbert, this new model represents national emblems: a fleur de lys topped by a royal sun between two French cockerels.
The Grand Gallery (La Grande Galerie in French), as it was called in the 17th century, was used daily by courtiers and visitors for passing through, waiting and for meeting people. It was only used for ceremonies on exceptional occasions, when sovereigns wanted to lend splendour to diplomatic receptions, or distractions (balls or games) on the occasion of princely weddings. For the first, the throne was installed on a podium at the end of the hall, next to the Salon de la Paix (Peace Room) with its closed arch. The show of power rarely reached such a degree of ostentation; thus, the doge of Genoa in 1685 and the ambassadors of Siam (1686), Persia (1715), and the Ottoman Empire (1742) had to cross the entire hall, watched by the Court gathered on each side of the terraces! There were also the wedding celebrations of the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV, in 1697, of the son of Louis XV in 1745 and the masked ball for the wedding of Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, in May 1770. It was also here that the treaty of Versailles was signed on 28th June 1919, which sealed the end of the First World War. Since then, the presidents of the Republic of France continue to receive the official hosts of France here.
The Hall of Mirrors was restored in 2007 thanks to the sponsorship of skills of the company Vinci, great sponsor of the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
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Hall of Mirrors - Inside Palace of Versailles - France
The Palace of Versailles, Château de Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. This was Louis XIV's palace. Construction was completed in 1715. This area is called Hall of Mirrors which is a corridor full of mirrors and big chandeliers !!
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Measuring 73.0 m × 10.5 m × 12.3 m (239.5 ft × 34.4 ft × 40.4 ft) Versailles Hall of Mirrors is one of the most famous rooms in the world, witness to such historical events as the signing of the Treaty of Versailles the Palace and Hall are visited by over 3 million people every year, its most recent restoration in 2007 has the room looking as good as new.
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Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles, France
The Hall of Mirrors, the central gallery in King Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles. One of the most famous rooms in the world.
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Watch the amazing facts about Hall of Mirrors, a central gallery, Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France, a virtual tour.
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