Now the Palace of Versailles is getting ready to add to its list of functions: preparations are underway for a Belgian company to turn The Hotel du Grand Controle, traditionally home to the palace’s treasurers, into a luxury hotel."
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Marie Antoinette Would Not Approve
France24 - Part of Versailles Palace to become luxury hotel: "It’s a sumptuous historical monument, a wildly popular tourist attraction, and a symbol of French monarchy and decadence.
Now the Palace of Versailles is getting ready to add to its list of functions: preparations are underway for a Belgian company to turn The Hotel du Grand Controle, traditionally home to the palace’s treasurers, into a luxury hotel."
Now the Palace of Versailles is getting ready to add to its list of functions: preparations are underway for a Belgian company to turn The Hotel du Grand Controle, traditionally home to the palace’s treasurers, into a luxury hotel."
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Well, since, by the time Marie Antoinette lived there, Versailles was a rabbit warren of tiny subdivided apartments full to bursting with nobles who thought nothing of taking a whiz (or worse) wherever they happened to be in the palace, she might have appreciated an overhaul.
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