Focus on the Queen’s Hamlet at the Palace of Versailles, renovated with the funding of a private sponsor and whose interior is now open to the public. Guided tour led by Catherine Pégard, President of the Palace of Versailles, and Laurent Salomé, Director of the National Museum of Versailles.
Easter weekend marks the beginning of the tourist season for the Palace of Versailles, with 30,000 visitors expected over these three days. Focus on a novelty offered to visitors, the opening of the wings of the castle, where reveal works of art that trace the history of France.
Attendance at the Palace of Versailles broke records, with more than 3.7 million visitors, 80% of whom are foreign, in the first half of 2018. Interviews of several of them and evocation of the novelties set up this summer to attract new tourists (show of the Musical Fountains Show, reopening of the Queen’s Hamlet after renovation).
Since 1999 the gardens of the Palace of Versailles Park have been cultivated and maintained without the use of pesticides, as explained by the head gardener of the estate Alain Baraton.
Marie-Antoinette’s clock rings again at the Petit Trianon in Versailles. Four months of meticulous restoration work were necessary to revive this clock installed in the bell tower of the estate at the request of the queen in 1784. Explanations by Daniel Mornas, former watchmaker at the Palace of Versailles.
The Palace of Versailles is in danger, victim of years and damage to the stone. The railings crumble and the infiltrations threaten the framework, like the Royal Opera. To prepare for the emergency, scaffolding was installed in the Hall of Mirrors, pending restoration funding.
The first Galantes took place at the Palace of Versailles, privatized for the occasion, in the form of a grand ball costumed in the colors of the splendor of the court of the Sun King. For 230 euros the evening, the participants invested the Hall of Mirrors, learning the dances of the time and in the presence of actors playing sayings of this castle life. Interviews with participants.
Discover the Chateau de Versailles through an infographic series of sixteen figures that allow you to learn more about one of the most fascinating castles in the history of France, from its construction by Louis XIV to today.
At the Palace of Versailles, the table of King Louis XVI is again set up in the Antechamber of the Grand Couvert of Queen Marie-Antoinette to recreate the atmosphere of this supper, taken every evening in public by the monarch and his wife. The restoration and reconstitution lasted two years.
Focus on reforestation of the Palace of Versailles park, which was hard hit by the passage of the Lothar storm in December 1999, with more than 10,000 trees felled or uprooted. This first phase of replanting will also make it possible to accelerate a restoration usually scheduled every hundred years and to recreate the effects of staging and perspective desired by Le Nôtre. Explanations by Alain Baraton, head gardener of the Domaine, and Laurent Choffé, agricultural engineer.
Report on the shooting at the Palace of Versailles of Benoît Jacquot’s new film "Farewell to the Queen", adaptation of the novel by Chantal Thomas featuring the collapse of the Ancien Régime. Testimonials of extras and interviews of actors Virginie Ledoyen, Léa Seydoux, Xavier BEAUVOIS as well as of the director Benoît Jacquot and Jeanne Hollande, responsible for the reception of filming at the Palace of Versailles.
Focus on the restoration of the paintings of Le Brun in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. This operation, exclusively funded by a private sponsor, is the subject of a preliminary study to identify the tasks to be carried out, as explained by two curators and Hubert Astier, director of the museum of the Palace of Versailles.
Close-up of the Musical Fountains at the Palace of Versailles. This show, intended by Louis XIV to honor the court, relives from spring to autumn, to the sound of the music of Lulli, Charpentier or Lalande and in front of amazed spectators.
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