{"id":2811,"date":"2025-10-06T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:31:11","slug":"paris-day-18-versailles-day-2-the-palace-grounds-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"Paris Day 18 – Versailles Day 2 (part 1) – The Palace & Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Started out as a rainy day, but turned to sunshine by the end of it. We were inside for much of the day so the timing was good. Planning around the daily\/weekly weather works out pretty well as long as you get a bit of luck ‘ta boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We get to bypass this line! If you go get the yearlong pass. It has many perks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Overview of the early campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Good thing we’ll be inside today. Looks a bit rainy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Statues everywhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The good life!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Chapel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Versailles has a chapel. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lets Meet Louis XIV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The man, the myth, the legend. Probably had more wealth than any other man in human history! People thought he was a god. He thought he was a god (why wouldn’t he be given his situation). But unfortunately his final years were absolutely horrible health-wise. Yet he seems to have kept his act together and financed some amazing accomplishments in French history. I don’t know much more then that about him, but what a moment in the history of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did someone mustachio this painting?!?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess not \ud83d\ude42 LOL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess the mustache was real.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rooms Rooms Rooms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You need a lot of rooms and a lot of garden area if you have 10,000 of your closest noble friends (and their staff) over for much of the year. The nobles actually complained about how crowded Versailles and the surrounding area was (go figure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original rock stars. Make a joke about my hair… I dare you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nobody has more fun than nobles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Is he deciding what to have for dinner, or what civilization to take over?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paperwork… The highest form of power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hall of Mirrors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Just around the corner, the Hall of Mirrors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I think mirrors in these sizes were very rare at that time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The nobles tended to inject themselves into mythical, heroic, or biblical scenes. Another post-truth society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More Rooms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Long room hey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kinda looks a little like Tom Hanks?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looks like a guy who knows the total value of everything imaginable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the next post I’ll post our garden tour, and the tour of the Opera House and the Carriage Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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