Victor Hugo found the town so beautiful he once said: " take Versailles, add Antwerp, and you have Bordeaux ".

Maximilian Emanuel was again forced to flee the Netherlands after the Battle of Ramillies ( May 23, 1706 ) and found refuge at the French court in Versailles where his late sister Maria Anna ( 1660 – 1690 ) had been the wife of le Grand Dauphin.

In September they sailed for France, and on their arrival at Versailles Lauzun found that his failure had destroyed any prospect of a return of Louis XIV's favour.

Much of his time was spent in Versailles, where he found the stables of the palace open to him, and where he gained his knowledge of the anatomy and action of horses.

Green was expected to utilise over 50, 000 German troops and Sea Lion was expected to use 160, 000 but for Green the Germans only found two steamships available around the north-western ports of France-the French Versailles and the German Eule together with three small coasters: Mebillo, Clio and Franzine.

He married Louise Françoise Adélaïde de Saint-Germain ( Yvelines, Versailles, 13 January 1769-Thauvenay, 10 March 1850 ), who was said to be a daughter of Louis XV of France-with whom she shared the same striking resemlance in the strongly marked Bourbon traits also found in other of his illegitimate offspring-by Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ), and had issue:

Rose Bertin opened her own clothing shop, Le Grand Mogol, on the Rue Saint-Honoré in 1770 and quickly found customers among influential noble ladies at Versailles, many of whom followed her from Mademoiselle Pagelle ’ s, including many ladies-in-waiting to the new Dauphine, Marie Antoinette.

Adam was thirty-seven when, on his election to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1737 the model of the colossal group of Neptune and Amphitrite that was afterwards cast in lead for the central fountain in the Bassin de Neptune at Versailles, and it made his reputation ; thereafter he found much employment in the decoration of the royal residences and in garden sculpture and fountains.

The three ladies, affectionately known as " The Versailles Triumvirate ," hosted a famous salon in France and, in 1903, along with Ann Vanderbilt, helped organize the Colony Club, the first women's social club in New York City and, later, helped found the exclusive neighborhood of Sutton Place along Manhattan's East River.

The resulting Treaty of Versailles, due to European allies ' punitive and territorial designs, showed insufficient conformity with these points and the U. S. signed separate treaties with each of its adversaries ; due to Senate objections also, the U. S. never joined the League of Nations, which was established as a result of Wilson's initiative.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

Defeated and partly occupied, Germany was forced to pay war reparations by the Treaty of Versailles and was stripped of its colonies as well as Polish areas and Alsace-Lorraine.

After more than a century of rule by its neighbors, Poland regained its independence in 1918, internationally recognized in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles.

By occupying the Czech part of Czecho-Slovakia, Germany lost all credibility with its claim to be only righting the alleged wrongs of Versailles.

After the defeat of Germany, the service was dissolved completely on 8 May 1920 under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which mandated the destruction of all its aircraft.

The League held its first council meeting in Paris on 16 January 1920, six days after the Versailles Treaty came into force.

The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area ( the Free City of Danzig, Memel Territory, and Saar ), was accomplished in the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on May 7 of that year.

According to Molotov Germany had a legitimate interest in regaining its position as a great power and the Allies had started an aggressive war in order to maintain the Versailles system.

The negotiations succeeded ; while the war was in its final phase King William of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors in the Château de Versailles.

During its first year of business the Court issued three advisory opinions, all related to the International Labour Organisation created by the Treaty of Versailles, and collectively grouped into the International Labour Organisation Questions.

In 1919, under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany relinquished its claims to the islands.

As the war neared its end, Marshall became the first vice president to conduct cabinet meetings ; Wilson left him with this responsibility while traveling in Europe to sign the Versailles treaty and to work on gathering support for his League of Nations idea.

Versailles () is a city in the Yvelines département in Île-de-France region, word-widely renowned for its château, the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Versailles was made the préfecture of the Seine-et-Oise département at its inception in March 1790 ( at which time Seine-et-Oise had approximately 420, 000 inhabitants ).

The académie de Versailles, the largest of France's thirty académies by its number of pupils and students, is in charge of supervising all the elementary schools and high schools of the western suburbs of Paris.

Versailles was the capital of the most powerful kingdom in Europe, and the whole of Europe admired its new architecture and design trends.

The National Constituent Assembly followed the king to Paris soon afterwards, and Versailles lost its role of capital city.

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

Versailles was again the political center of France, full of buzz and rumors, with its population briefly peaking at 61, 686 in 1872, matching the record level of population reached on the eve of the French Revolution 83 years earlier.

It was not until 1911 that Versailles definitely recovered its level of population of 1789, with 60, 458 inhabitants at the 1911 census.

The park, with artificial lakes, was originally part of the estate of a large stately home Wanstead House, one of the finest Palladian mansions in Britain, from its size and splendour nicknamed the English Versailles, and the architectural inspiration for Mansion House, London.

The nearby stately home of Boughton House, sometimes described as the ' English Versailles ' has for centuries been the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch, major landowners in Kettering and most of the surrounding villages ; along with the Watsons of Rockingham Castle, the two families were joint lords of the manor of Kettering.

The Hall is a four-floor, 55, 000 square foot ( 5, 000 m² ) mansion, with a stately dining room, a mirrored ballroom in the Versailles tradition, an opera box modelled after the Opéra Garnier in Paris, a grand staircase, 23 crystal chandeliers, and inlaid wood floors.

This nighttime medium naturally lends itself to ecclesiastical buildings, stately homes and ruins, and has rapidly become very popular in France where about 50 annual productions take place, principally in the Loire Valley, at the Palace of Versailles and at Les Invalides in Paris.

The creatures threaten to decapitate Reinette, but the Doctor crashes through the mirror on horseback to save her, even though he believes he has stranded himself in Versailles in the year 1758.

There was talk of the government falling, Rawlinson writing to H. A. Gwynne ( 14 February 1918 ) that the best solution was to give Robertson a powerful role at Versailles and have Wilson as a weak CIGS in London “ where he will not be able to do much mischief-especially if Squiff replaced LG as PM ”.

Alexandre Bontemps, the most senior of the thirty-six valets to Louis XIV of France, was a powerful figure, who ran the Chateau de Versailles.

He believed that powerful, multilateral institutions could avoid the mistakes of Versailles and prevent another worldwide depression.

For the jeux d ' eau at Versailles, a watermill-driven pumping station ( the machine de Marly, at the time being the most powerful machine in Europe ) and elaborate aqueducts had to be constructed to bring water from many kilometers away.

Amidst talk of the government falling, Rawlinson wrote toGwynne ( 14 February 1918 ) that the best solution was to give Robertson a powerful role at Versailles and have Wilson as a weak CIGS in London “ where he will not be able to do much mischief-especially if Squiff replaced LG as PM ”.

The authentic idea of unity of the Slavic people was all but gone after World War I when the maxim " Versailles and Trianon have put an end to all Slavisms " and was finally put to rest with the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in late 1980s.

Ikeda's editors were opposed to her idea of a biography of Marie Antoinette, and only its popularity among readers kept The Rose of Versailles in publication.

He felt initial sympathy for Germany over the Treaty of Versailles and so at first he favoured appeasement, stating that in 1936, just after Germany reclaimed the Rhineland that it was nothing more than the Germans walking into their own back yard, however he later abandoned the idea after the Munich crisis.

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