Resources

Palace of Versailles app
The official Palace of Versailles app offers you audio tours and an interactive map of the entire Estate.


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...

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...

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...

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...

Versailles A private Invitation
The largest palace in the world holds a thousand and one unsuspected secrets, unknown even to real connoisseurs.