The new international encyclopaedia . uated here. The grand monarch lavished vastsums in laying out. comideting, and maintainingthis magnificent royal seat. Tlie Court camehere permanently about 1682, and from this datefor over a hundred years Versailles figuroil] in history. Louis XV. dwelt hereand Madame de Pompadour and Madame DuBarry reigned over this vast pleasure establish-ment. Here, too, Louis XVI. and Alarie An-toinette resided. lu the palace was signed thetreaty of 1783 between England, France, andSpain, on the same day (September 3d) on whichthe definite treaty of peace
The new international encyclopaedia . uated here. The grand monarch lavished vastsums in laying out. comideting, and maintainingthis magnificent royal seat. Tlie Court camehere permanently about 1682, and from this datefor over a hundred years Versailles figuroil] in history. Louis XV. dwelt hereand Madame de Pompadour and Madame DuBarry reigned over this vast pleasure establish-ment. Here, too, Louis XVI. and Alarie An-toinette resided. lu the palace was signed thetreaty of 1783 between England, France, andSpain, on the same day (September 3d) on whichthe definite treaty of peace in which Englandrecognized the indejiendencc of the Inited Stateswas signed in Paris. On October 6th the palacewas ravaged in the ]iresenec of Louis bv themarket women and llsh wives, with the resultthat the King and (.biccii were forced to go toParis. The meeting of tlie States-General, the()]iening act of the Frencli Hevcdution. took placehere on May 4, 1789. Since then it has has neverbeen a residence. During the siege of Paris in. UJ VERSAILLES. 89 1S70-71 KiiifT Williiini I. niatle his headquarterslific, ami here he was prochiimed ClcnnanEmperor, January 18, 1871. Wlien theGermans departed, the French Government es-tablished itself at Versailles, whence it carriedon war against the Paris Comniuiie. It remainedhere until 1870, when Paris was once more madethe political capital. Consult: Laurent-IIanin, llistoire ?muiiicipalcde Versailles (Paris, ) ; Bosq, Versailleset les Trianons <ib., 1887); Molinier, Versailles,ses arts decoratifs, ses in usees ct ses colleetioiis(ib., 1888) ; Bouchf., Versailles (Versailles, 1805). VEBSCHAFFELT, vfr-sKiiffelt, Pieteb An-TONiE (known also as 1ietko Fiammingo) (1710-93). A Flemish sculptor and architect, one of thebest known exponents of tlie rococo style. Hewas born in Ghent and studied under his uncle,Pieter de Sutter, and Bouehardon in Paris. Heexecuted in Rome a monument to Pope BenedictXIV., the bronze figure of the archan
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