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From then on, Versailles lost a good deal of its inhabitants.

From 60, 000, the population had declined to 26, 974 inhabitants by 1806.

The castle, stripped of its furniture and ornaments during the Revolution, was left abandoned, with only Napoleon briefly staying one night there and then leaving the castle for good.

Louis-Philippe, who took the throne in the July Revolution of 1830, saved the castle from total ruin by transforming it into a National Museum dedicated to " all the glories of France " in 1837.

Versailles had become a sleepy town, a place of pilgrimage for those nostalgic for the old monarchy.