Versailles The Great

Due to the fact that Ilya missed the Art and Culture lesson, I've bet him to write a post about the Palace of Versailles. And here I go.
We'd had to make a presentation about Versailles, and I decided to make exactly about Galerie des Glaces - the Hall of Mirrors. But here I'll try to get in touch with everything.
Versailles was the royal residence of France for little more than a century (from 1682 until 1789) when the French Revolution began. Louis XIV of France just "expended" a hunting lodge of his father Louis III. Then Louises XIV, XV and XVI called the Palace home. Well, I'd like to have such a home too! Also, this place is connected with two great women I always like reading about - Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette. The both women made a lot of mess in France, and they were gorgeous.

Galerie des Glaces

Le Vau’s plan called for an enfilade of seven rooms, each dedicated to one of the then known planets and their associated titular Roman deity (But building the Hall of Mirrors several of them was destroyed). Le Vau’s plan was bold as he designed a heliocentric system that centred on the Salon of Apollo. The salon d’Apollon originally was designed as the king’s bedchamber, but served as a throne room. During the reign of Louis XIV (until 1689), a solid silver throne stood on a Persian carpet covered dais on the south wall of this room. Thanks Wikipedia for the information. Our teacher constantly interrupted my presentation and told us that now all those silver and golden decoration, fabric wallpapers, chandeliers and furniture don't impress so much, as they did that distant past.
Telling in the nutshell, the Palace of Versailles is a complex reflecting the nature of Louis XIV - Louis the Great, the Sun King.

Here's my little architecture lesson, that's all for that subject.