When we think of Versailles, we think of Marie Antoinette, opulence, and the last hurrah of the aristocratic high life before the French Revolution put an end to such folly in 1789. We may also think ...
Implicit in a visit to Versailles is the slightly macabre thrill of experiencing a culture so excessively decadent that it violently upended a nation. But the former seat of the French monarchy also ...