Château de Versailles

Château de Versailles

Also known as Palace of Versailles

Photo: Charles Nicolas Cochin I · Public domain

Year

1661

Architect

Louis Le Vau Louis Le Vau

Type

building

The palace at Versailles grew from Louis XIII's hunting lodge in brick and stone from 1623-1624, but the garden facade universally recognized today is Louis Le Vau's stone envelope from the late 1660s, drawn as a unified palace front around …

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