Today the Palace contains 2,300 rooms spread over 63,154 m2. In 1789, the French Revolution forced Louis XVI to leave Versailles for Paris. The Palace would never again be a royal …

At Versailles, the king sought to honour the Empire in a number of spaces on the ground floor of the Palace’s South Wing, under the Gallery of Battles. He displayed most of the large …

Like the Venus Room, the Diana room served as a vestibule to the King's State Apartment. During Evening gatherings under Louis XIV it was used as a Billiards Room. Two tiers of seating were …

Marie Antoinette acquired more space by fitting out new rooms on the floor above (such as a Billiard Room) and even had a miniature summer apartment built on the ground floor, which …

The story of Louis XIV’s reign - from his childhood to his death - unfolds through the series of ten rooms presenting the family and the court. The works on display provide a unique eye-witness …

The 1792 Room presages the messages of the Gallery of Battles and the1830 Room beyond it, in a trilogy that represents the King of the French’s response to the Hall of Mirrors built by his …

Cocktails: in combination with the Cotelle Gallery and/or the Round Room. Private hire of the Peristyle

The layout of the first floor of the Palace was perfectly symmetrical, with the The Queen’s Apartments, which overlook the Midi Parterre, are a series of rooms whose layout is identical …

This large space adjoining the royal apartments first served as the palace’s second chapel (1672-1682), and then the Great Guard’s Room “for both the King and the Queen” (1682-1789). In …

The Palace architect Frédéric Nepveu replaced the Ancien Régime’s five residential stories with three levels: kitchens on the ground floor, for receptions the king held at the palace; the …