One after another, the magnificent public rooms of Versailles....
leading up to the throne room, which sadly was filled with scaffolding. Back in the day we would have to bow or courtsey, even if Himself was not in the room.
The throne room gives out to a corner room. But not us.
We took in the corner room....
and turned to enter ....
the Gallerie du Glace, aka the Hall of Mirrors.
the Gallerie du Glace, aka the Hall of Mirrors.
The Hall of Mirrors is the entire end gallery of the palace. One turns from the end room to enter the Public Apartments, where the king and queen lived out their lives in public, including the births of 17 royal children that were born in the queen's pubic bedchamber, in full view of the court.
The antechamber to the king's bedroom.
The king's bedroom.
The king's private meeting room.
The queen's bedroom.
The door to the left of the bed is to the hallway between the queen and king's bedrooms that was used to hide out fom the revolutionaries when they stormed the palace. As Tom said, looking at all this opulence, hard to imagine why the starving masses were a little peeved.
The queen's sitting room.
The royal dining room, set as it might have been for the courtiers to serve them a meal.
Some restoration going on in the final room of the public royal apartments.
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