The Palace of Versailles is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. The palace and park were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for its importance as the center of power, art, and science in France during the 17th and 18th centuries.[1]
Coverage[]
The Palace of Versailles is featured in Take Me to Your Leader.
It was introduced in 1 month after people when the spectacular gardens of Palace of Versailles sits untended. It is one of the most opulent homes built by any leader in history where it measures 500,000 square feet, 10 times larger than the White House, and it's construction in the late 1600's nearly bankrupted the nation. It was also the place where the angry mobs of the French Revolution captured Marie Antoinette and her husband King Louis XVI, taking them away to Paris, and the guillotine, overthrowing the French Monarchy. Versailles was one of the few places that could accommodate the hundreds of dignitaries that had descended on France in 1919 to negotiate the treaty ending World War I and the peace agreement would become known as the Treaty of Versailles, signed at the famous Hall of Mirrors. The area is measured more than 235 feet and longer than a Boeing 747 and was originally installed in 1684 with each mirror containing mercury and requires more than 100 pounds of toxic liquid metal in every 10 square feet of mirror. After people, it could determine the fate of the historic hall.
In 50 years after people, snow and rain have bestowed a different fate upon the Palace of Versailles as the once famous gardens are consumed by forest. Inside the palace, the chandeliers and much of the roof fell long ago along with the famous gardens that have worked their way indoors and Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors is in dire strait. Steven S. Ross stated that the roof of the Hall of Mirrors would leak as it fails and water would cascade down the walls that hold the mirrors in place from both behind and in front of the glass. But mercury has prevented mold and fungus from colonizing them but eventually, water steadily rot the oak supports that hold the mirrors to the walls and one by one, the mirror falls and shatters.
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Errors[]
- The one shot of the interior in the 1 month segment is not actually this palace, instead, it is located in the New Herrenchiemsee Palace, 900 km to the east in Bavaria.
- The construction of the palace did not actually bankrupt France and the country then was still a kingdom, not a nation.