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Marie Antoinette's Private Apartments Versailles

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By: Tatiana Dokuchic
Posted in: architecture

Salon Doré

Marie Antoinette's Salon Dor one of the four main rooms of her Petits Appartements in Versailles.

These small rooms with their concealed doors escaped the surveillance of spies and favoured love affairs and intrigues. To step through the looking-glass, just as Marie Antoinette used to do, is an extraordinary experience. The four main rooms, the Mridienne, the two libraries, the Salon Dor, their boudoirs and their bathrooms provide a perfect image of eighteenth-century France as we imagine it today.

from The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer & Franois Halard Is it any wonder that I have always taken such inspiration from this wonderful suite of rooms designed and created by the finest craftsmen! Read more ...

Gabrielle Glendevon
24 Oct 2009 05:28:42PM @gabrielle-glendevon:
Stunning, I'll be going there this Christmas!!!! Paris here I come!!
Tatiana Dokuchic
24 Oct 2009 05:40:12PM @tatiana-dokuchic:
Wow - lucky you! Now I'm green with envy - hehe. Be sure to take tons of pics :))