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Although Madame de Pompadour, who wished to “relieve the king’s boredom”, was the instigator of this small palace that Gabriel built in the 1760s, it is the memory of Marie-Antoinette that hangs over the building. In 1774, Louis XVI offered the Trianon estate to the Queen who was able to live away – too far away for some – from the Court.Petit Trianon was built according to the latest "Greek-style" fashion and by revisiting classical art elements. From the ground floor to the first floor of the Attic, architect Anges-Jacques Gabriel created his masterpiece

Château de Versailles

French PavilionThis pavilion is known as the “French” pavilion because it was located in the middle of one of those regular gardens which began to be known as “French” gardens in contrast with the budding trend of English gardens. Built by Gabriel in 1750, it was one of Louis XV’s first creations at Trianon, the estate to which he had felt drawn towards since childhood.

French Pavilion

Dessus-de-porte de l'antichambre(Over doorof the antechamber)

French pavilion

Petit Trianon - Façade ouest

Sobriety, reasoned richness of embellishments, order and perfection characterized this new method of building

The main staircase

Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria,

the later Queen Marie Antoinette of

France by Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802) Palace

of Versailles

this portrait was sent to the Dauphin, so he could see his bride before he met

her.

Marie Antoinette's bedroom

The Petite salle à manger

On the first floor, the reception rooms and apartments of the Queen welcome visitors before they discover the mezzanine and the apartments of the King, located on the last floor, in the Attic.

AtticAntichambre du Roi

AttiqueAntichambre du roi

Cabinet de l'attique

In the Attic, Jacques-Ange Gabriel created an apartment for Louis XV as well as a series of quarters for the lords of his suite. This apartment, composed of an antechamber, a bedchamber and a corner cabinet, was naturally assigned to Louis XVI who, nevertheless, never slept there. Therefore, it was probably the King’s sister, Madame Elisabeth, who occupied this apartment.

Cabinet de l'attique Bureau

de Louis XVI Riesener, 1777

AttiqueChambre du roi (The King’s Bedchamber)

AttiqueLa pendule dans la Chambre du roi

AttiqueChambre du roi

AttiqueChambre du roi

Augustin PajouAllegory of the birth of the dauphin Louis Joseph,

showing Marie Antoinette as Venus holding ‘Love’ in her arms

AttiqueChambre du roi

AttiqueChambre du roiOver door painting

AttiqueChambre du roi

Attique Chambre du roi

Attique Salle évoquant la chambre de l'impératrice Marie-Louise puis de la duchesse d'Orléans

Attique Salle évoquant la chambre de l'impératrice Marie-Louise puis de la duchesse d'Orléans

Attique Salle évoquant la chambre de l'impératrice Marie-Louise puis de la duchesse d'Orléans

Napoléon II Roi de Rome by François Gérard - 1812

Chaise du Pavillon du Rocher (ou Belvédère), replacée aujourd’hui dans l’attique du Petit Trianon (salle Madame Elisabeth)

Attique Salle évoquant

le cabinet de toilette

Attique Empress Eugenia

room

The tapestry has been

reconstructed to the state it would

have been in when Marie Antoinette

occupied the mansion.

It was Empress Eugénie who

decided that the room should pay tribute to Marie

Antoinette herself -

consequently the room has been named after the

Empress.

Empress Eugenia room

The Empress had furniture and other objects from Marie Antoinette's time (even some of the decapitated Queen's personal belongings) brought back to the Petit Trianon in 1867 as a part of the World Fair. In total Empress Eugénie managed to gather 144 objects with a reference to the last Queen of the l'ancien régieme.

AttiqueSalle évoquant le boudoir de

la duchesse d'Orléans

Surrounded by gardens, Petit Trianon is visible from all sides, a appearance which was all the craze at the end of the 18th century. The four sides are all different.The simplicity of north-facing side reminds us that it is the back of the castle which originally faced the greenhouses of the Botanical garden, replaced by Louis XVI with the English Garden.

From the Petit Trianon to the Queen’s Gardens, passing by the Hamlet, Marie-Antoinette's estate, opened in 2006, reveals Marie-Antoinette’s private life. Louis XVI’s wife loved this place where she could return to the pleasures of simple, rural pursuits, away from the pomp of Versailles.

On 6 June 2012, the palace of Versailles officially opened the Belvedere and its Rock, restored after a year of work

The Belvedere, the principal building dominating the ornamental lake of the garden, is an octagonal pavilion built by the architect Richard Mique. It illustrates perfectly the taste of the 18th century for picturesque scenes of vegetation and architecture.

Used by the queen as her music room, the Belvedere pavilion, like Cupid’s Temple, is decorated in the classical style.

The Rock, which completes this landscaped scene, drawn and designed by the painter Hubert Robert, forms the pendant to the Belvedere with its contrasting aesthetic. The grotto is the entrance to the Belvedere and you must pass over the faux bois bridge to gain entrance

The Rock

The Belvedere

Built on a hill on an artificial island, the Belvedere is circled by a terrace with charming sphinx standing guard. It has a commanding view of the English gardens with the Petit Trianon resting nearby, hidden by trees

The Belvedere

The balance of its proportions, the refinement of its sculpture

and the richness of its

interior paintings of

rural themes is completed by the patterned polychrome marble floor

The Belvedere and its Rock

are located in the Country Garden or

English Garden of Trianon, laid

out in the 1780s for

queen Marie-Antoinette, in the style of landscape gardens, in which the

picturesque combination of

the architecture

and the vegetation is

brought to its highest degree of refinement

The chapel at Petit Trianon was used by Marie-Antoinette during her stays there. Sometimes she would visit her country house for an afternoon but other times she would remain there for a month. The altar painting (1774) by Joseph-Marie Vien portrays Saint Louis IX and Queen Marguerite visiting Saint Thibauld, whom they were asking to pray for them to have a child.

The chapel is decorated in a simple style so cherished by Marie-Antoinette, as is the rest of Petit Trianon. There is a tiny onion dome over the chapel roof reminiscent of Austria.

Marie-Antoinette, 1775 Musée Antoine Lécuyer

The Petit Trianon and its park are indissociably linked to the memory of Queen Marie-Antoinette. She is the only queen to have imposed her personal taste on Versailles. Sweeping away the old court and its traditions, she insisted on living as she wished. In her Trianon domain, which Louis XVI gave her in 1774, she found the heaven of privacy that enabled her to escape from the rigours of court etiquette. Nobody could come there without her invitation.

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Sound: Dinu Lipatti - Chopin - Nocturne No.8 in D-flat major, Op.27