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Marble Courtyard
Read the older brick-and-stone palace around its marble-paved courtyard. The clock and balcony locate Louis XIV’s bedroom in the centre of the first-floor facade.
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Look for the clock and the balcony in the central facade. Behind those first-floor windows is the bedchamber Louis XIV began using in 1701. The brick and stone around it belong to the earlier residence of his father, Louis XIII, which remained at the heart of the enlarged palace.
The courtyard takes its name from its marble paving. Its smaller scale helps you recognise the old building within the long wings added around it.
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- Azurfrog · Grand Trianon Salon des malachites.JPG · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- G.Garitan · Grand Cabinet madame victoire 1505549.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Pedemann · Grand Trianon Billard.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jen Wen Luoh · Petit Trianon - Antichambre 01.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia · Le grand escalier - Petit Trianon (24276910376).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons · Cabinet dore Marie-Antoinette Versailles.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
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- Léa Le Floc'h · Chateau de Versailles et son reflet.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
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