Restoration of the Hall of Mirrors and Marie-Antoinette’s Petit Trianon, Museum of the History of France, concerts, guided tours, etc. can be downloaded free and without having to register from iTunesU, Apple’s e-learning platform dedicated to museums and universities worldwide.
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Some available podcasts below.
Follow the exhibition's curators in search of the most important, mysterious and unexpected works presented in Versailles in "Sciences and Curiosities at the Court of Versailles".
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Versailles is the finest and the most complete achievement of French art in the 17th century. The former hunting lodge of Louis XIII was transformed and vastly enlarged by his son Louis XIV who installed his court and the government of France here. In 1661, he commissioned André Le Nôtre to design and lay out the gardens of Versailles, a titanic undertaking that took forty years to complete. From the apartments of the Sun King to the Grand Trianon of Napoleon, the Château and its gardens have been constantly transformed over the centuries.
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Visit the Petit Trianon, the Queen’s Theatre and the Queen’s Hamlet, and enter into the intimacy of Marie-Antoinette, who has remained one of the most fascinating figures in the history of Versailles. In charge of the entertainment provided at the court, she liked to get away from it in the graceful and peaceful setting of her own estate.
Visit the Petit Trianon of Marie-Antoinette where the queen used to retire to relax after the pomp and ceremony of the court in Versailles. Restored in 2008, the château’s intimate and refined splendour, designed by the architect Gabriel, is now open to the public.
