Trianon
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Trianons
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either of two palaces in Versailles, the Grand Trianon or the Petit Trianon, built in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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the Treaty of Trianon.
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Between 1774 and 1785, Marie Antoinette redesigned the house and gardens of Le Petit Trianon, a satellite chateau of Versailles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
In 1920, the Treaty of Trianon gave this area to Czechoslovakia.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
Marie Antoinette's own extravagances ran to near-constant renovations of her palace Petit Trianon.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
With its springy, white-maple floors, overseen by a giant, silver, clam-shaped bandshell, the Trianon quickly became Seattle’s premier dance palace.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
The horses whinny and neigh as the driver navigates the sharp turns and narrow lanes of the Imperial City of Trianon.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Rare books and manuscripts were spirited away from shelves of the National Library; the Chateau de Versailles and the Trianons, stripped of their furnishings, lay empty and bare.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Trianons may be reached in half an hour from the railway station, but the distance is considerable, and a carriage very desirable, considering all the walking inside of the palaces to be accomplished.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
The Grand and Petit Trianons deserve attention from having been the favourite retreats of the late unfortunate Queen of France; but few traces of the taste once displayed in their decoration now remain.
From A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium by Richard Boyle Bernard
August 25 was the birthday of the Empress Marie Louise, and this was celebrated at the two Trianons, which were full of memories of Louis XIV. and of Marie Antoinette.
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
We went through this building, which is a little in the style of the Trianons, at Versailles; smaller than Le Grand Trianon, and larger than Le Petit Trianon.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper
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