Palace of Versailles



The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal castle in Versailles, what was then a country village, but it is now a suburb of Paris.

From 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris and lived in this palace, until the royal family was forced to return to the ccapital, Paris in 1789, the Court of Versailles was the centre of power in the Ancien Régime. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of absolute monarchy.