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The Palace of Versailles is a former royal house that King Louis XIV ordered to be built. It is situated in the Yvelines Department in the Île-de-France region of France, some 18 kilometers west of Paris. The French government owns the palace, which has been run by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles since 1995 under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture. One of the most visited tourist destinations worldwide, Versailles palace, park, and gardens welcome almost 15,000,000 visitors annually. At Versailles, Louis XIII constructed a hunting lodge in 1623. The château was enlarged by his successor, Louis XIV, into a palace that underwent multiple periods of expansion between 1661 and 1715. As a favorite residence of both monarchs, Versailles became the de facto capital of France in 1682 when Louis XIV relocated his court and government there. The royal family and French court returned to Paris in 1789, but this situation persisted under Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, who mostly undertook interior changes to the palace. The Palace of Versailles was mostly deserted and stripped of its belongings throughout the remainder of the French Revolution, and the local population went down in numbers. Napoleon did not utilize the main palace after being crowned Emperor; instead, he used the Grand Trianon, a smaller palace, as a summer retreat from 1810 until 1814. Significant repairs to the palace were not performed until the 1830s, after the monarch had moved to Paris after the Bourbon Restoration and was reinstated on the throne. It replaced the courtier-apartments of the southern wing with a museum of French history. Because the palace and park were the epicenter of French power, art, and science in the 17th and 18th centuries, UNESCO declared them a World Heritage Site in 1979. #History #Architecture

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