Built at the beginning of the eighteenth century by Bullet de Chamblain for a financier of Louis XIV, the chateau belonged to the Dukes of La Vallière and was rented by (...)

The national estate of Versailles covers 787 hectares.

By copying religious architecture, Soufflot was responding to Louis XV's wish to glorify the monarchy in a worthy manner in the person of Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, to whom (...)