XXVII. LOUIS XIV'S STAGES ABSOLUTISM; first additions by Louis Le Vau and later ones by Jules Hardouin Mansart, begun 1669.

2/17 Chateau de Versailles, air view from front gate

2/18 Chateau de Versailles, Cour de Marbre, facade

2/19 Map

2/20 Versailles, Galerie des Glaces (Halls of Mirrors), 1670s, architecture by Jules Hardouin Mansart, interior decoration by Charles Le Brun.

2/21 Versailles, Galerie des Glaces (Halls of Mirrors), engraving by Sebastien Le Clerc, frontispiece to Volume I of the Conversations par Mademoiselle de Scudery, 1680)

2/22 Versailles, Bedroom of Louis XIV

2/23 Versailles, Louis XIV enthroned (painting by Marot)

2/24 Chateau de Versailles, ground plan of palace and garden complex; gardens by Andre Le Notre, 1680s.

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