The Palace of Versailles, known as château de Versailles in French, is a paragon of Baroque architecture that once served as a royal residence and the de facto capital of France—but its ...

Laura French The Château de Versailles, the sprawling palace and former seat of power, is located 10 miles southwest of Paris in Versailles. Every year, nearly 10 million travelers make the trek ...

Versailles was a palace of science, as Anna Ferrari shows in this stimulating and innovative study, accompanying a dazzling exhibition of the same title at the Science Museum, London (until 21 April).

On January 10, 1920, the Treaty of Versailles came into force, formally ending World War I for most nations involved. This treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, at the Palace of Versailles, imposed harsh ...

In June, delegates from 32 countries met at the Palace of Versailles near Paris to make peace after World War One - the peace they hoped would ‘end all wars’. No Germans were invited to the ...

From its hall of mirrors to its luxurious gardens, the Palace of Versailles of prerevolutionary France was the seat of French royal power and a playground for a fabulously wealthy elite.

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L’Or de Louis allows you to feel like a member of Louis XIV’s court, visiting the Palace of Versailles’s orangery with the 17th-century king of France. Just as the 24-karat gold glimmers in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Any mention of the Palace of Versailles is likely to summon images of gilt panelling, extravagant coiffure ...

L’Or de Louis allows you to feel like a member of Louis XIV’s court, visiting the Palace of Versailles’s orangery with the 17th-century king of France. Just as the 24-karat gold glimmers in ...