Temple of Love
Gardens of Versailles
Latona Fountain and Grand Canal
Grand Canal and Latona Basin
Louis XV in the Salon de Mercure
Portrait of Louis XIV, Salon de Mercure
King’s State Room
Apotheosis of Hercules
The Apotheosis of Hercules
The Pilgrims at Emmaus
Candelabras, Hall of Mirrors
War Room
Fountain of Amphitrite
Petting Goats at the Hameau de la Reine
Max with Gary at Court of Honour
Column of the Temple of Glory
Marie Antoinette’s Bed
Max at the Orangerie Terrace
Marble Courtyard
The Orangerie and Swiss Lake
Marlborough Tower and Dairy
Rustic Retreat
River God with Child
Mom at the Hall of Mirrors
Parterre de l’Orangerie
King’s State Bed
The Meal at the House of Simon
Astronomical Clock
Queen’s Bedchamber Canopy and Alcove
Room of Mars
Alley of the Muses
Statue of Louis XIV
Cottage in Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet
Galerie des Batailles
Luis and JJ at the Cour d’Honneur
Louis XIV on Horseback
Louis XIV as Roman Emperor
Parterre of the Orangery
Max, Luis, and JJ at Latona Fountain
Apollo in His Chariot
Luis and JJ in the Allée des Deux-Trianons
Mercury Presenting the Arts to Apollo
Queens of France in the Grand Couvert
Carp in the Grand Canal

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Palace of Versailles began as Louis XIII’s hunting lodge (1620s) and, from 1661, Louis XIV turned it—through Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and André Le Nôtre—into a staged capital of absolute monarchy, where ritual, architecture, and gardens disciplined the nobility. The Hall of Mirrors projected France’s power to Europe, yet the palace also became a backdrop to rupture: the court’s departure in 1789 and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Its vast axes of stone and water still read as politics made landscape.