After Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were forced out of the chateau during the French Revolution, the government left, and Versailles was practically abandoned. It was eventually brought back to ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... On this day, thousands of women from Paris marched on the Palace of Versailles, expressing their outrage about an ongoing bread shortage ...

its splendor immediately evoking a bygone era of 18th-century extravagance that eventually met its downfall with the French revolution in 1789. After Versailles became the seat of France’s court ...

Louis XIV renovated and expanded the palace, eventually moving his court to Versailles. During the French Revolution, the palace was largely abandoned, and it was not until 1830 that restorations were ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman dramatically recounts the storming of Versailles that marked the beginning of the French Revolution and looks at what this great political change meant for women. From various ...