The Palace of Versailles is a royal château
in Versailles, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the
château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a
suburb of Paris,
some 20 kilometers southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was
the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family
was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution.
Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as well as a symbol
of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancient Régime.
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