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...
Le Petit Quizz Versailles
Why is Louis XIV known as the Sun King ? What was the function of the Hall of Mirrors ? What were Louis XIV's favorite drinks ? What was the...
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...
Walks in the gardens and grounds of Versailles
From grand parterres to groves, not to mention the Orangery and basins, the Trianon Estate or the Queen's Hamlet, the renowned gardener Alain...
Peter the Great
Warrior-monarch and inveterate traveller, Peter the Great crisscrossed the world for almost four decades, from the White Sea to the Caspian, from...
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...
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.
Latona fountain
Its garden, its golden lead peasants and animals, its water effects and its gorgeous marble sculpture at the top make Latona Fountain a gem at the...
