Currently at Versailles

12 October 2021 - 13 February 2022

The King’s Animals

From its location in the heart of a vast forest in the Ile-de-France region, the Palace of Versailles has always fostered a new relationship with the animal kingdom. From animals as objects to be studied or collected to those used as political attributes and symbols of power, what were the relationships between the Court and the domestic, wild and exotic species of the animal world?

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