Executive summary by Darmansjah
The Palace of Versailles, 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 center 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.
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