...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Versailles 2
Gardens
Sometimes contemporary art rears its ugly/silly head
Grand canal
After chateau and gardens we (some of us) went on to the Queen's domain, Marie Antoinette's private retreat and the hamlet, a village specially constructed for her to play peasant (so I think I once read)
Most of the furniture at Versailles is period-furniture, not the original stuff; except, I assume's MA's toilet
One of the larger buildings in the hamlet
The mill; I prefer to think of the hamlet as an early instance of social experimentation ("what if they were to eat only cakes?")
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