Comments on: Château de Versailles

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:06:24 +0000

Im so interested in this aspect of life. I think he is such a great role model to us all in society now. The 21st century is totally out of control! oh how i love Louis! heheheheheheeheh!! txt me louis babe xoxox

By: Danisoul

Danisoul — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:17:44 +0000

The thing is…. we must apreciate it for the glamour and the thing to be. This is less worst than the Great Wall or other structures that killed more people than a war. I bet that Versailles did not starve people… king’s money was not for people after all… he spent them on the great thing we can now enjoy. I was there also and was unpleasantly surprised of idiot people that carved their names into the walls and paintings. Now that is idiot!

Hope you can apreciate the efect and not analyze the cause, coz, at the end, this is not a thing we want to disapear from face of the Earth… history buildings and geographical sights are the most precious things the world have. We must preserve them and enjoy… not to destroy them like brainless people we most are!

Thank you!

By: Clint

Clint — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:11:46 +0000

I’m really disappointed I didn’t get credit for submitting this a couple of months ago…

anyways, I was five when I visited Versailles, so I suppose the sheer volume of the halls and expanse of the gardens especially impacted me. And my feet. You can’t walk as far when you’re five, especially when you’re bored out of your mind. Parents never appreciate that when they’re sightseeing.

But 18 years and several college history courses later, I’m very glad my parents exposed me to things like this, and I can’t wait to go back at the first opportunity.

By: another bill

another bill — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:38:27 +0000

aw…let ‘em eat cake.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:32:00 +0000

“Not a single bathroom in the whole joint.
Seriously.”

Wasn’t Louis XIV fond of receiving visiting dignataries as he sat on the royal chamber pot?

By: Pierre Goiffon

Pierre Goiffon — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:31:51 +0000

Luke you’re right : moving the king and its court from Paris (Louvre) to Versailles was a big turn in the french history. Louis XIV (le roi Soleil) was very chocked when young by a rebellion and so one of its first decision was to go out of Paris. This happened at a very particular moment in the history of french monarchy – but we can discuss about that a long time

The chateau de Versailles is very huge, it was built at a time where France was one of the very first most powerful nation in the whole world. So it’s big, huge ! One of the biggest problems the architects had to deal with was to bought enough water for all the fountains in the park

By: Luke Sleeman

Luke Sleeman — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:59:41 +0000

Well, I’m no monarchist, from the wikipedia article it looks like the Chateau de Versailles did have some important advantages. It allowed Louis IXV to centralize the government, stopping rebellion and infighting amongst the aristocrats. In addition it appears the Chateau of Marly actually cost more to maintain than Chateau de Versailles.

By: .

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:28:42 +0000

Not a single bathroom in the whole joint.

Seriously.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:45:54 +0000

Sadly the hall of mirrors was closed for renos so we couldn’t see it all in its brilliance

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:30:07 +0000

Thanks for giving me a shout for submitting Versailles.

-Bill