Interior of the Palace of Versailles

Palace of Versailles

The sumptuous main rooms are on the ground floor of the spacious palace. Surrounding the Marble Courtyard are the private rooms of the king and queen: on the garden side, the state rooms where the official life of the court took place, richly decorated by Charles Le Brun with colored marbles, stone carvings and wood, murals, velvets and silver and gold furniture.

Beginning with the Hercules hall, each state room is dedicated to an Olympian deity. The greatest splendor is offered by the Hall of Mirrors, where 17 of them appear in front of tall arched windows.

Some of the rooms that we can find are: the ndu Sacre room, the Louis XVI Library, the Apollo Room, the Council's Cabinet, the War Room, the royal chapel and the Venus room.

The Queen's Chase: On October 6, 1789, the plebs of Paris invaded the palace in search of the despised Marie Antoinette. The queen got up alarmed from her bed and ran to the anteroom known as Oeil-de-Boeuf, to announce herself in the king's bedroom, while the crowd tried to enter the room. So I am safe, at least until the following week when she and the king were transferred to Paris by the enthusiastic and triumphant mob.


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