History of Versailles:
According to Wiki, "the court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution.
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| Hall of Mirrors - The galerie des glaces (Hall of Mirrors in English), is perhaps the most celebrated room in the château of Versailles. |
Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy. While the poor were starving, King Louis XIV inhabited in his lavish Palace of Versailles and continued his extravagant expenditures on luxuries. King Louis XIV became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.
In 1590, the existing stores of food were inadequate to feed the population. The poor people had descended to eating dogs, cats, tallow, grass..and even rats…..It was proposed that the bones of dead Parisians stored in the charnel house be ground into flour and baked into bread as there were no grain. Yet, it turned out to be a failure as people who ate those bone-bread died shortly after. (hypothesis reasons: (1) those breads had no nutrient (2) bread came from plague victims (3) contaminated by prions. )- Reference
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| Grand Trianon Castle Interior |
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