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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the building of Versailles as well as its rich history. How it served as a royal indulgence of the succession of French kings is explored. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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final year that the French Revolution would become history (2004). Versailles played a central part in the revolution, at least symbolically. Versailles was the luxurious palace that Marie Antoinette and
her husband, King Louis XVI, were criticized for enjoying. Of course, Versailles had been built long before Louis XVI had been born. In fact, Louis XIII was responsible for
building a hunting lodge at that very village just outside of Paris in 1624 (2004). The small structure had become the basis on which perhaps the most costly and
extravagant buildings in the world were made (2004). It was something that was meant to be called home for Louis XIV, someone who had been known as the "Sun King"
as he thought of himself as literally being the state (2004). In other words, the world seemed to revolve around him, or at last he thought that way. To
create the beautiful residence for the young sun king, a great deal of work would be involved. In fact, those in charge of the enormous project included the architect Louis
Le Vau, a painter and decorator by the name of Charles Le Brun, and Andre Le Notre, who was a landscape architect (2004). Versailles was very large.
The project entailed the clearance of approximately 37,000 acres to make room for "tree-lined terraces and walks and thousands of flowering plants" ("Palace," 2004). Four hundred pieces of
sculpture were introduced to the gardens, along with 1,400 fountains (2004). Things went well, but it was not much later that the project would change. In 1676, Jules
Hardouin-Mansart was an architect who would be put in charge of redesigning and enlarging the building (2004). He began with Le Vaus plans, but he would add a second story
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