The Petit Trianon, in the Marie Antoinette's estate (south facade)
The Petit Trianon and its park are indissociably linked to the memory of Queen Marie-Antoinette. She is the only queen to have imposed her personal taste on Versailles. Sweeping away the old court and its traditions, she insisted on living as she wished. In her Trianon domain, which Louis XVI gave her in 1774, she found the heaven of privacy that enabled her to escape from the rigours of court etiquette. Nobody could come there without her invitation. Although Madame de Pompadour, who wished to “relieve the king’s boredom”, was the instigator of this small palace that Gabriel built in the 1760s, it is the memory of Marie-Antoinette that hangs over the building. In 1774, Louis XVI offered the Trianon estate to the Queen who was able to live away – too far away for some – from the Court.
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Location: marie antoinette's estate, versailles palace, versailles, yvelines, ile de france, france
Photo credit: © Versailles Walker / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: antoinette, courtyard, estate, louis, marie, petit, sout, trainon, trianon, versailles, xiv
