Another incredible ceiling at Versailles.
This was King Louis the fourteenths bedroom but became working rooms for successive rulers.
The statuary around the painting are...not conducive to sleeping.
This is the council room, where business of state and the swearing in of special appointments were done.
Marie Antoinette's apartment.
Her little dresser is a little modest, n'est ce pas?
The dining room where lucky and loyal persons could watch the King and Queen eat on comfy cushion chairs. I'm not kidding. It was, in the King's mind, so that the common folk could see that the royal family were human.
A painting in the "war room".
A copy of the famous painting, "the crowning of the empress Josephine by the Emperor Napoleon the first in Nortre Dame of Paris on 2 December 1804" made 1808-1822. This copy is as big as the original which is in the Louvre. Both are over six meters by nine meters in size.
This is a room with portraits of many of the revolutionary persons of note, after they took over the place.
It includes this fellow.
This staircase was in the wing where the dauphin (young Prince) stayed at. I'm shocked that they thought the balcony for the stairs was not too low. Very unsafe.
In a very large room were very large paintings, done after Louis-Phillipe was King in 1830. He was the last King of France but the last Monarch was Napoleon the third who took power after him as Emperor. Louis-Phillipe wanted a room with paintings of famous French victories. The one above, if you haven't guessed, is of Joan of Arc's victory at Orleans in 1429.
A painting in the vein of propaganda for King Louis-Phillipe. It is called "Truth accompanying Justice and Wisdom protecting France from Hypocrisy, Fanaticism and Discord".
In the hall of statues, there are many important French persons sculpted here. Jean-François Champollion, translator of the Rosetta Stone in 1822, began modern Egyptology.
Voltaire, or François-Marie Arouet, was a historian and writer in the age of enlightenment.
Blanche of Castile was Spanish born and was Queen to King Louis the eighth and acted as regent twice during her son's reign (Louis the ninth). She was a peacemaker and politically savvy.
Charlemagne. First ruler of France (774-814), warmaker and peace maker too.
Now we are done with the inside. Time for the gardens.
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