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Explore the Estate
The Palace
- The hall of Mirrors
- The King’s Grand Apartment
- The King’s chamber
- The Queen’s Grand Apartment
- The King's interior apartments
- The Royal Chapel
- Apartments of the dauphin and the dauphine
- Mesdames’ Apartments
- Apartments of Marie-Antoinette
- The Apartment of the Marquise de Pompadour
- Museum of French History
- The Congress room
History
Versailles through the centuries
- A day in the life of Louis XIV
- Louis Le Vau
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart
- Louis XIV, gardens of Versailles guide
- Places of power
- André Le Nôtre
- The courtiers
- Charles Le Brun
- Royal tables
- Hyacinthe Rigaud
- Antoine Coysevox
- The Pleasures of the Enchanted Island
- The Grand Divertissement Royal
- François Girardon
- The Yew Tree Ball
- André-Charles Boulle
- The Francine dynasty
- Wedding of the Dauphin Louis and Marie-Antoinette
- The first aerostatic flight
- Chocolate at Versailles
- Pierre Puget
- New Year’s Day gifts in Versailles during the Ancien Régime
- Robert de Cotte
- Gabriel, father and son, architects
- Richard Mique
- Jean-Henri Riesener
- Eugène-Charles-Frédéric Nepveu
Court characters
- Louis XV
- Louis XIV
- Louis XVI
- Marie-Antoinette
- Maria Theresa of Austria
- Marie Leszczinska
- The Grand Dauphin
- Mesdames
- Madame Royale
- Louis XVII
- Cardinal de Fleury
- Madame de Montespan
- Madame de Maintenon
- Madame de Polignac
- Madame de Pompadour
- Madame Campan
- Madame Du Barry
- Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV
- Axel de Fersen
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
- La Grande Mademoiselle
- Lapérouse
- Turenne
- Jacques Necker
- Lafayette
- Saint-Simon
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Rose Bertin
- Madame Elisabeth
The big dates
- 1630 The Day of the Dupes
- 1682 Versailles, capital of the kingdom
- 1685 Reception of the Doge of Genoa
- 1686 Reception of the embassy of Siam
- Wedding of the Duc de Bourgogne and Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy
- 1700 The Duc d’Anjou, king of Spain
- 1715 Reception of the Persian embassy
- 1715 The death of Louis XIV
- 1717 Visite of Peter the Great
- 1722 Retour of the Court to Versailles
- 1742 Visit of the embassy of the Sublime Porte
- 1757 Assassination attempt of Damiens against Louis XV
- 1763-1764 Visit of the child Mozart
- 1774 The death of Louis XV
- 1777 Visit of Joseph II of Austria
- 1778-1783 Versailles and the United States
- 1784-85 The scandal of the queen’s necklace
- 1789 Opening of the Etats Généraux (States General)
- 1789 Jeu de Paume Oath
- 1789 The departure of the king
- 1797 Creation of the Special Museum of the French School
- 1805 Visit of pope Pius VII
- 1837 Inauguration of the Museum of the History of France
- 1855 Visit of Queen Victoria
- 1871 Proclamation of the German Empire
- 1871-1879 The parliamentarians at Versailles
- 1875 Birth of the 3rd Republic
- 1919 The Treaty of Versailles
- 1957 – 1992 State visits
- 1953 Royal Affairs at Versailles
- 1962-1966 André Malraux and Versailles
- 1982 The Versailles Summit
- 1999 The storm in Versailles
News
Events
- The publications
- Shows in the palace of Versailles
- Symposiums, conferences and workshops
- A work of Philippe Cognée in Versailles
- Equestrian Show Academy
- A monumental cloth in the Cour Royale
- The acquisitions of the Palace
- Launch of phase 2 of Grand Versailles
- Restoration and refurnishing
- Restoration of the Queen’s Salon du Grand Couvert
- 8th European Museums Night
- Restoration of the balcony of the Cour des Cerfs
- Restoration of the bathroom of
Marie-Antoinette - Lire au jardin 2012
- Running Tour 2012
- The restoration of the Mercury Salon
- The Splendour of painting on porcelain
- The palace of Versailles in Arras
- Forthcoming exhibitions
- The Triumph of Handel
- Archaeology in Versailles