Due to the very high temperatures from Sunday 21 June, the Palace and the Gardens will close at 4.30 pm and the Estate of Trianon closes at 4:15 pm, last access at 3:00 pm. The park remains open until 8.30 pm. Check out our tips for visiting during hot weather: fill up your water bottles, make the most of the shaded areas, …

Heat wave at Versailles

Fashion and Versailles

Illustrated book

Laurence Benaïm
with éditions Flammarion, 2017
24 x 31 cm,  240 p., 55,00 € TTC
ISBN  978 2 08020 335 9

book available in English and French

“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 above all the best amused woman at court; to be the arbiter elegantiarum, the person who set the tone for a society rich in artificial distinction and one which regarded itself as the world.”

Stefan Zweig, Marie-Antoinette, 1933

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