Resources
Palace of Versailles app
The official Palace of Versailles app offers you audio tours and an interactive map of the entire Estate.
Rabbids at Versailles
The Palace of Versailles, in partnership with Ubisoft, is offering a new mobile application that you can download for free to play with the Rabbids…
A day at Versailles
Everywhere you walk at Versailles your gaze lingers over its beauties, your thoughts skim over its centuries of history, through the turmoil of the…
A day with Marie-Antoinette
In the popular imagination Marie Antoinette remains the last queen of France; to the world in general she is the queen of France. . . . No other…
The Crusades Rooms
The Crusades Rooms played a little-known role in Louis-Philippe’s political aim to transform the Château de Versailles into a museum. Some 130…
Apollo served by the nymphs
The sculptures of Apollo’s Baths are to Versailles what the Mona Lisa is to the Louvre: absolute masterpieces, constituent of the site’s identity.
The salon de l'Abondance
The Salon de l’Abondance, the smallest of the salons in the Grand Apartments, served as an antechamber to Louis XIV’s Cabinet of Rarities. Its trompe…
Napoléon
Via the Napoleon exhibition, the ‘Versailles at Arras’ partnership highlights the history of the close link between the first emperor of the French…
Fashion and Versailles
“To be queen meant no more to Marie Antoinette . . . than to be admired as the smartest, the most coquettish, the best dressed, the most spoiled and…
The Mercury salon
The Mercury Salon in the King’s Grand Apartment in the Chateau of Versailles was Louis XIV’s ceremonial chamber.
