During its heyday from 1682 to 1789, Versailles wasn’t just a palace - it was the center of France’s royal world. French royals, nobles, and state officials lived together in the sprawling palace ...

but in 1789 the royal family and capital of France returned to Paris. For the rest of the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles was largely abandoned. The most famous room in the palace is ...

Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the events of 5 October 1789. On this day, thousands of women from Paris marched on the Palace of Versailles, expressing their outrage about ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

Frederick envisioned his estate as a kind of Versailles for Berlin ... The phrase appeared in a 1789 biography, published after his death. Frederick wanted to be buried next to his dogs at ...

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 ...

1789. The New York native held the title until resigning in 1795, among the shortest tenures for the prestigious lifetime appointment. Only 16 other people have held the title of Supreme Court ...

The course for the marathon and race walking at the Paris Olympics draws inspiration from the famed Women's March of 1789, when nearly 7,000 Parisian women marched through Paris Versailles to bring ...

The Sanssouci Palace, the summer home of Frederick the Great in Potsdam, Germany, is a lavish alternative to the Palace of Versailles in France. In addition to the royal residence, Potsdam is also ...

The Palace of Versailles houses the world’s largest collection of paintings by the artist Horace Vernet, who – though now grown rather obscure – was once renowned for his triumphal scenes of colonial ...

Located right next to the Louvre, the gardens were designed by André Le Nôtre, the landscape architect who also designed the Gardens of Versailles ... of the Bastille in 1789.