CHAPPIDI ABHIRATH REDDY
C/O COL GKS REDDY
Visit Versailles Palace - 08 Sep 2013
It was a very tiring day on 07 Sep 2013 and it was about 2000h, by the time we reached our hotel room. Had early dinner and retired to bed in preparation for the next day's schedule. Got ready leisurely on the morning of 08 Sep 2013, as we had decided to limit our visit only to Versailes Palace. Reached Versailles Station, about 20 miles from Paris by 1015h and went straight to the Palace.
Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ/ vair-sy or /vərˈsaɪ/ vər-sy; French: [vɛʁˈsɑj]), or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.
The earliest mention of the name of Versailles is in a document dated 1038, relating to the village of Versailles. In 1575, the seigneury of Versailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited Louis XIII on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased with the location, Louis ordered the construction of a hunting lodge in 1624. Eight years later, Louis obtained the seigneury of Versailles from the Gondi family and began to make enlargements to the château. This structure would become the core of the new palace. Louis XIII's successor, Louis XIV, had it expanded into one of the largest palaces in the world. Following the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1678, he began to gradually move the court to Versailles. The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682.
View of Versailles Palace from the Court Yard - about 300 yards away
Another View of Versailles Palace from the same Distance
View of Versailles Palace from the Court Yard - 200 yards away
View of Palace from 150 Yards away
View of Versailles Palace from the Courtyard - 100 yards away
At the Entrance to the Palace
In front of Queens Rooms, in the Inner Courtyard of the Palace
At the Ground Floor Entrance of the Palace
Portrait of King Louise XV
Model of Versailles Palace Layout
Statue of Lt Gen Abraham Marquis, 1610 - 1788
Statue of Anne Hilarion De Constantin
Hercules Room, (Ball Room)
Another View Of Hercules Room
Venus Room - Main Entrance of the Grand Apartments, during Louis XIV
Diana Room - Billiards & Ball Room of Louis XIV
Another View of Diana room
Mercury Room, King's Personal reception Room, - Roof Painting
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The Bed in the Mercury Room - Gifted to the King but never used by him
Apollo Room - Former Kings Bed Chamber - Later Converted to throne Room,
also used to receive Distinguished Guests
At the Hall of Mirrors. Used for Royal Weddings and Large Receptions
The Bull's Eye Room. So named, because of the Bull's Eye Shaped window.
Used as Courtiers waiting room, before being admitted to King's Bed Room
The King's Bed Room, used by Louise XIV and there after.
The Council Study - The King Presided over various Councils with his Ministers
An Artifact in the Hall of Mirrors
The Peace Drawing Room, Adjacent to the Queens Bed Room.
The Queens Bed Room
The Queen's Nobles Room, where the Queen held her Official Audiences.
It was later converted to the Cabinet Room
Royal Supper Room
Portrait of King Louise Phillipe
Gallery of Battles - Inaugurated in the year 1832
Battle of Iena 14 Oct 1806 - fought by Napoleon Bonaparte
Battle of Bowvines - 27 Jul 1214
Battle of Rivoli - 14 Jan 1797
At the Mid Section of Gallery of Battles
Rear View of Versailles Palace - From near the Garden Entry
The Gardens of Versailles Palace
In 1661, Louis XIV commissioned André Le Nôtre with the design and laying out of the gardens of Versailles which, in his view, were just as important as the Château. The works were undertaken at the same time as those for the palace and took forty years to complete. But André Le Nôtre did not work alone: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Superintendent of the King’s Buildings, directed the project from 1664 to 1683; Charles Le Brun, appointed First Painter of the King in January 1664, produced the drawings for a large number of statues and fountains
Fountain near the Entry of the Garden
Modern Marble Sculpture in the Versailles Gardens
The vast Lawns in the Gardens
The Musical Fountain, where the water from the line pf Pipes sprouts up as per Music played
The Colonade in the Versailles Garden
Fountain of Apollo's Chariot
Note:- The information about the places visited has been Extracted from Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
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