1. Versailles: Home of the "Sun King" Versailles: Home of the "Sun King" By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Young Louis XIV

3. L’ouis XIV

5. L’ etat c’est moi! By Hyacinthe Rigaud By Hyacinthe Rigaud

6. Louis XIV’s Carriage

7. The Bourbon Family Crest

8. L’ ouis XIV as Apollo

9. by Jean Nocret, 1670

10. The Sun Symbol

11. Versailles Statistics f 2,000 acres of grounds f 12 miles of roads f 27 miles of trellises f 200,000 trees f 210,000 flowers planted every year f 80 miles of rows of trees f 55 acres surface area of the Grand Canal f 12 miles of enclosing walls f 50 fountains and 620 fountain nozzles f 21 miles of water conduits f 3,600 cubic meters per hour: water consumed f 26 acres of roof f 51,210 square meters of floors f 2,153 windows f 700 rooms f 67 staircases f 6,000 paintings f 1,500 drawings and 15,000 engravings f 2,100 sculptures f 5,000 items of furniture and objects d'art f 150 varieties of apple and peach trees in the Vegetable Garden

12. Louis XIII’s Old Chateau

13. Versailles Today

14. Palais de Versailles

16. Versailles Palace, Park Side

17. Garden View of Versailles

18. Chateau de Versailles

20. André Le Nôtre, Royal Gardener

21. Versailles’ Northern Gardens

22. Gardens at Versailles

23. Chateau de Versailles Gardens

24. The Orangery

25. Grounds at Versailles

26. The Lightening of the Belvedere by Claude Chatelet, 1781

27. Fountains, Fountains, and More Fountains!

28. And More Fountains!

30. And Even More Fountains!!!

31. Temple of Love

32. Hall of Mirrors

33. The Queen’s Bed The King’s Bed

34. Louis XIV’s Chapel

35. Louis XIV’s Chapel Altarpiece

36. Organ in Louis XIV’s Chapel

37. Louis XIV’s Opera Stage

38. Cabinet with Views of Versailles, 19c

39. Louis XIV Furniture

40. The Gallery of Battles

41. Louis XV [r. 1715 – 1774]

42. The “Hunts” of Louis XV

43. Madame de Pompadour

44. Madame de Pompadour’s Bedroom

45. Petite Trianon, Madame de Pompadour’s Chateau

46. Marie Antoinette & Her Children

47. Marie Antoinette’s Boudoir

48. Marie Antoinette’s “Peasant” House

49. Marie Antoinette’s “Peasant’s Hut”