Domaine de Trianon

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The Grand Trianon is a château (palace) in the northwestern part of the Domain of Versailles. It was built at the request of King Louis XIV of France as a retreat for himself and his maîtresse en titre of the time, the Marquise de Montespan, and a...

Northwest of Versailles’ main palace is the Domaine de Trianon. Admission includes the pink-colonnaded Grand Trianon, built in 1687 for Louis XIV and his family to escape the rigid etiquette of the court; the ochre-colored 1760s Petit Trianon, a favorite gift from Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette, redecorated in 1867 by consort of Napoléon III, Empress Eugénie; and the 1784-completed Hameau de la Reine, a mock village of thatched cottages where Marie Antoinette played milkmaid.

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