The decoration of Louis XIV's apartments and the story of his day shed light on the personality of this absolute sovereign. See all the guided tours. The Palace of Versailles presents many operas, concerts, gala evening and ballets in some of its exceptional sites as the Royal Opera and the Royal Chapel.
Discover the musical season programme. Concerts, operas, masked balls and shows : discover the programme for the 10th edition of the Festival of Versailles. The app is completely free of charge.
It includes the audioguide tours in English and an interactive map of the Estate. The app includes the audioguide tour of the Palace and an interactive map of the Estate. It can be used without an Internet connection.
Individuals, companies, foundations, help the Palace of Versailles to shine worldwide. From just five euros, anyone can contribute to a patronage project and be part of the history of Versailles. Today the Palace contains 2, rooms spread over 63, m2. Home page Restoration of the Royal Chapel Experience the restoration site. The Day of the Dupes recalls, in fact, two days, November 10 and 11, He suddenly turned out to be her most potent rival.
In the beginning, King Louis gave his mother the impression that she had won against her contender. He granted Richelieu his place back and officially requested his mother to leave the Court. It was the last time that the Queen saw her son, the King. This event marked the end of the influential Queen, who spent the remaining years of her life in the countryside, in poverty.
Even if he did not take a great interest in the place at first, Louis XIV later fell in love with Versailles. In he ordered the building of his masterpiece: the Palace of Versailles.
In the 17th century, France was a flourishing country that progressively became the ruling European nation. Louis XIV was supposed to be a king by divine right. He held all powers of France in his hands. He was the representative of God on earth. Special themes. Major programmes. For the Press. Help preserve sites now! Join the , Members. Search Advanced. By Properties. Cultural Criteria: i ii iii iv v vi Natural Criteria: vii viii ix x.
Category Cultural Natural Mixed. All With videos With photo gallery. Country Region Year Name of the property. Without With. Painted by Hubert Robert in the late 18 th century, this painting depicts the installation of the central nave where a statue of Isis was set up. Although the furniture and many of the works of art had been removed, the palace continued to be an attraction, with guided tours still being organised.
In any case, it was not totally deserted because in it was designated as a Public Repository, i. It was on the basis of these seizures and whatever had not yet left the palace that the project was launched in to establish a museum, which, after a somewhat chaotic installation period, opened in A science room covering natural history and physical sciences was set up on the ground floor of the North Wing, while a library was established on the ground floor of the South Wing.
The State Apartments and the Queen's Apartments were used to display paintings, as well as vases and other collectibles, which were placed on marble tables. This last section underwent considerable change, becoming, in , the Special Museum of the French School. Dedicated solely to French painters past and present, it entailed a further exchange of works between the Paris museums and Versailles, with the latter having to relinquish paintings and antiques it still held from foreign schools in return for paintings and sculptures by French artists.
This short-lived museum, which opened in only to close its doors again in , helped make the connection between the paintings hanging on the walls and the painted ceilings in the apartments.
The court left Versailles in October for Paris. It would never return. Opening in , the museum celebrated glorious events in the history of France from the Middle Ages to the start of the July Monarchy. The king of the French wanted to be a reconciler; the major works he undertook in the Palace did away with former court spaces, but saved the building itself. The refurbishment continued after his departure, and Napoleon III went on to use the Palace as a venue for celebrations and to represent his power.
Here he received Queen Victoria for a sumptuous stay in The Palace had become an archetypal seat of power and continued to host the most important events in the history of France, such as the declaration of the German Empire, signed in following France's defeat at war by the Prussians. The Palace took a long time to recover Similarly, the Third Republic was born in Versailles, as the Parliament took refuge here after the Commune.
Between and fifteen presidential elections were voted on by Parliament meeting in Versailles. The arrival of a young curatorial assistant in , and his subsequent appointment as curator in , enabled the Palace to showcase its former role as royal residence.
During the horrors of the First World War, Versailles suffered anew. The beginning of the 20th century was marked by the First World War, and Versailles also suffered during this conflict which forced the Palace to close and its works to be protected.
But, like Paris, Versailles was not invaded and, all in all, life continued.
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