. Paris and environs : with routes from London to Paris and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland : handbook for travellers. VILLE KT PARC y 1 Rtj^i LLis Eclielle de 15. VERSAILLES. 285 chapel to the left the monument of the Comte de Vergennes (d. 1787),minister of Louis XVL To the S. W. of the palace is the Jeu de Paume, or tennis-court,in which the members of the Third Estate met in June 1789 (seeabove), after they had found the assembly-room closed against them,and where, on the motion of the deputy Mounier, they took a solemnoath, de ne jamais se separer, de se rassembler part
. Paris and environs : with routes from London to Paris and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland : handbook for travellers. VILLE KT PARC y 1 Rtj^i LLis Eclielle de 15. VERSAILLES. 285 chapel to the left the monument of the Comte de Vergennes (d. 1787),minister of Louis XVL To the S. W. of the palace is the Jeu de Paume, or tennis-court,in which the members of the Third Estate met in June 1789 (seeabove), after they had found the assembly-room closed against them,and where, on the motion of the deputy Mounier, they took a solemnoath, de ne jamais se separer, de se rassembler partout ou lescirconstances Iexigeront, jusquk ce que la constitution du royaumesoit ^tablie et affermie sur des fondements solides. — The hallnow contains a few marble statues, brought from the palace. The high-road from Paris, or Avenue de Paris, unites with thetwo other chief streets of Versailles in the spacious Place dArmes. The *Palace of Versailles presents a less imposing appearancewhen approached from the Place dArmes than when seen from thegarden, the facade towards which is no less than 1/4 M. in building dates from several different periods, and its s
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