Marie-Antoinette, wishing to gat away from the Court of Versailles, ordered her Hamlet to be built in 1783. She stayed here regularly to enjoy the charms of rur
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The Queen’s Hamlet
The Gardens
In 1661, Louis XIV commissioned André Le Nôtre to design and lay out the gardens of Versailles. The vast project took forty years to be completed.
The Hall of Mirrors
The Grand Gallery, as it was called in the 17th century, was used every day by the courtiers to get to other places, as a waiting area and a meeting-point.