Architecture sights in Versailles
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Grand Trianon
In the middle of the park, approximately 1.5km northwest of the main building, are Versailles' two smaller palaces, each of which is surrounded by neatly tended flowerbeds. The pink-colonnaded Grand Trianon was built in 1687 for Louis XIV and his family as a place of escape from the rigid etiquette of the court. Napoleon I had it redone in the Empire style.
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Petit Trianon
Much smaller than the Grand Trianon, the much smaller, ochre-coloured Petit Trianon , built in the 1760s, was redecorated in 1867 by Empress Eugénie, the consort of Napoleon III, who added Louis XVI-style furnishings similar to the uninspiring pieces that now fill its 1st-floor rooms.
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