Versailles

American  

[ver-sahy, ver-, ver-sah-y^uh] / vɛrˈsaɪ, vər-, vɛrˈsɑ yə /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Yvelines, in N France, about 12 miles (19 km) SW of Paris: palace of the French kings; peace treaty between the Allies and Germany 1919.

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Versailles British  

/ -ˈseɪlz, vɛəˈsaɪ, vɛrsɑj /

noun

1. a city in N central France, near Paris: site of an elaborate royal residence built for Louis XIV; seat of the French kings (1682–1789). Pop: 85 726 (1999)

2. 1. the treaty of 1919 imposed upon Germany by the Allies (except for the US and the Soviet Union): the most important of the five peace treaties that concluded World War I

   2. another name for (the Treaty of) Paris of 1783 See Paris 1

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Versailles Cultural  

1. City in northern France about ten miles southwest of Paris.

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The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, officially ended World War I.

It is the site of the Palace of Versailles, which was built by King Louis xiv in the seventeenth century and was the royal residence for over one hundred years.

The French Revolution began in Versailles, when mobs stormed the palace.

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The president of France's famed Palace of Versailles took over as head of the Louvre following a litany of problems at the world's most-visited museum including a $100-million jewellery robbery.

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In 2024, he was appointed president of the Palace of Versailles, one of the most visited tourist sites.

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Other state-owned French cultural tourist hotspots are also hiking their fees for non-EU visitors, including the Versailles Palace, Chambord Palace in the Loire region and the national opera house in Paris.

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Her task was to produce a son and appear, as she seemed to Burke when he saw her at Versailles in the mid-1770s, as a “delightful vision . . . glittering like the morning star.”

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While the war officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed in June 1919, fighting had stopped months earlier.

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