Shiny Objects: Palace of Versailles
With the Olympics in Paris this year, I noticed the French are using all their culture and places on hand to showcase the games. I saw the River Seine, Teahupo’o, and then I saw Versailles. And I was like, oh, this would be a good time to look through some photos.
Versailles is hard to explain, even in photos. It’s unfathomably big and gargantuan. It’s absurd to think about. I can only imagine walking in Bill Gates or Elon Musks house to compare some kind of grandiosity. Everything is hand cut of marble, or gold. The rooms are continuous and Neverending—like 2,300 rooms big. Beds take up whole rooms. Huge paintings cover floor to ceiling. The courtyard is enough to host a whole battalion. There’s even a cathedral inside for private worship.
And then there’s the backyard.
The Palace of Versailles covers 8,150,265 square meters (87,728,720 square feet), or 2,014 acres.
Like c’mon.
I didn’t go out there, actually. I was just finally recovering from being sick and saw how vast the gardens were. Decided against it as you could imagine.
But I did tour the inside. I couldn’t believe what people’s decadence could be, even a couple hundred years ago. Apparently 5000 people could be living or hosted within the place. That’s a tiny city.
Whatever it was in history, it was still quite astounding to walk through. The echoes of people walking and talking in corridors gave me flashbacks of what life could have been there. It’s my favorite part of history, daydreaming like it’s still right before me.
I’d go back if I had the chance. Next time I think I’ll walk the gardens humming fairytale like tunes while wondering who I should write letters to. Maybe I’ll even get a boat onto one of those lakes, wouldn’t that be a splash..
Galerie des Glaces
Stunning. Shining.
Personal cathedral. Extra-fucking stunning.
Détail.
How would I look living here?!
It’s like a movie.
Seriously. The detail.
The myth.
I think I know whose chair thst is.
One of those other Louis.
🥰
wow.
Full gallery of insane art inside the palace. Did that give you an idea? It’s one of those places you could easily get lost in. So many rooms I couldn’t take photos of to do it justice. Maybe it helped scratched that itch for you though. Thanks for riding todays history tour. I hope you come back again.