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    The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ/ vair-SY, vur-SY; French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ) is a former royal residence commissioned...
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    of Versailles (French: Jardins du château de Versailles [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj]) occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the...
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    The grand appartement du roi is the King's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles. As a result of Louis LeVau's envelope of Louis XIII’s château, constructed...
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    ameublement du château de Versailles sous Louis XIV." Colloque de Versailles. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Appartement du roi (Versailles). 48°48′17″N...
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    The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country...
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    related to Grand appartement de la reine du Château de Versailles. This chapel was the second of chapels built in the Château of Versailles Owing to the...
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    quelques appartements de Meudon, aussi bien que dans les plafonds & sur les lambris du Château de la Ménagerie: seul bâtiment où ce genre de peinture...
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    Vau constructed the Château Neuf. When the new part of the château was completed, the chapel was situated in the Grand appartement de la reine and formed...
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    appartement de la reine (French: [pɛˈtit‿apaʁtəˈmɑ̃dəlaʁɛn]) is a suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles. These rooms, situated behind the grand appartement...
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    The petit appartement du roi (French: [pɛtit‿apaʁtmɑ̃ dy ʁwa]) of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI...
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    magnificence that of the Château de Versailles" (i.e. the Palace Chapel). Percier and Fontaine initiated work on the Rotonde de Beauvais, which was completed...
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    Versailles. In 1623, King Louis XIII ordered the construction of a modest two-story hunting lodge at Versailles, which he soon enlarged to a château from...
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    The Royal Opera of Versailles (French: Opéra royal de Versailles) is the main theatre and opera house of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by Ange-Jacques...
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    The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte [ʃato də mɛzɔ̃ lafit]), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French...
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    only one still exists in ruins. Château de Commercy Château d'Einville-au-Jard Château de la Favorite (Lunéville) Château de la Malgrange Palace of the Dukes...
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    The Château de Maintenon is a château, developed from the original castle, situated in the commune of Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir département of France...
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    then became the Château du Raincy and the Château de Sainte-Assise at Seine-Port. Before the court was officially moved to Versailles, and before the...
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  • de Marbre pendant le règne de Louis XIV". Revue de l'Histoire de Versailles: 1–30. Marquet de Vasselot, Jean J. (1899). "La Ménagerie du château de Versailles:...
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    The Château d'Écouen is an historic château in the commune of Écouen, some 20 km north of Paris, France, and a notable example of French Renaissance architecture...
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    de Montesson, and the couple lived at the Château de Sainte-Assise where he died in 1785. Just before his death, he completed the sale of the Château...
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    installed in the Grand Appartements of Louis XIV located on the second floor. The Régence marks the temporary eclipse of Versailles as centre of policymaking...
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    Madame du Barry's exile ended and she was allowed to return to her beloved château at Louveciennes, but she was never permitted to return to Versailles. Upon...
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    in the gardens which she named the Hameau de Chantilly, after the Hameau at her father-in-law's Château de Chantilly. With the French Revolution, the...
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    1785, of the duc de Choiseul, Château d'Aumale, Château de Dreux, Château de Gisors, Château de Saint-Hubert, Château d'Amboise, Château de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire...
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    List of social nudity places in Europe (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Bois de Valence Club du Soleil de Versailles Club du Soleil France Club du Soleil Montagne[citation needed] Club du Soleil Nature Club gymnique de France...
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    Salon d'Hercule (category Palace of Versailles)
    first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the Royal Chapel in the North Wing of the château with the grand appartement du roi. Originally, the...
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    Grande Écurie (category Buildings and structures in Versailles)
    galerie des carrosses: Château de Versailles. Versailles, Paris: Château de Versailles Artlys. ISBN 978-2-85495-641-2. Barbier de Reulle, Caroline (2022)...
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    the Palace of Versailles, with the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de la reine (not to mention the petit appartement du roi), or at Hampton...
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    Ludmann, Jean-Daniel (1985). Les grands appartements du Palais Rohan de Strasbourg (in French). Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. (no ISBN) Boutineau,...
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    Design.Furniture Masterpieces 1650–1790 », Versailles, musée du château de Versailles, 2014/15, catalogue de l'exposition, ouvrage collectif, Dijon, 2014...
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