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Trianon Palaces and Domaine de Marie-Antoinette:
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from the pressures of kingship. But in a short time, the Château had become as busy as
Paris ever was. Louis XIV needed an escape from his escape and built a smaller palace
out in the boonies. Later,his successors retreated still farther from the Château and French
political life, ignoring the real world that was crumbling all around them. They expanded
the Trianon area, building a fantasy world of palaces and pleasure gardens—the enclosure
called Marie-Antoinette's Domaine.
The beautifully restored
Grand Trianon Palace
is as sumptuous as the main palace,
but much smaller. With its pastel-pink colonnade and more human scale, this is a place
you'dliketocallhome.Nearbyarethe
French Pavilion,
Marie-Antoinette's
Theater,
and
the octagonal
Belvedere
palace.
