Resources
Palace of Versailles app
The official Palace of Versailles app offers you audio tours and an interactive map of the entire Estate.
Trianon and the Queen’s Hamlet at Versailles
In this volume, Jacques Moulin traces the development of Trianon and explains its significance in the political and cultural context of the period....
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 Museum Library
The museum library is located in the outbuildings of the Palace : the Grand Commun, built between 1682 and 1684 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, has been...
The Crusades Rooms
The Crusades Rooms played a little-known role in Louis-Philippe’s political aim to transform the Château de Versailles into a museum. Some 130...
Napoléon
Via the Napoleon exhibition, the ‘Versailles at Arras’ partnership highlights the history of the close link between the first emperor of the French...
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...
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...
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...
