July 03, 2010

Thursday 1 July: “This is the Hall of Mirrors. It has lots of mirrors.”


Strike one for clarity from one of our fellow visitors to the Palace of Versailles. It was indeed quite reflective in perhaps the most overblown room in a monument to the excesses of various French royals across the 17th & 18th centuries. It’s hardly surprising that the masses eventually revolted.

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