marie-antoinette’sestate and

tRianon palaces

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opening times and admission prices

The Trianon Palaces and Marie-Antoinette’s Estate are open daily except Mondays and some French public holidays or during official ceremonies.

* citizens of the European Union under 26 years old and teachers assigned to a French school (primary and secondary) are granted free admission to the permanent collections.

High season 12noon to 6.30pm; tickets sold until 5.50pm,last admission to the Grand Trianon andPetit Trianon: 6pm(the gardens must be vacated from 7pmand are closed at 7.30pm);age 18 and over*: €10 (€ 6 from 4pm); school students, Imagine R cardholders,disabled, under 18s*: free.

Low season 12noon to 5.30pm;tickets sold until 4.50pm; last admission: 5pm;age 18 and over*: €6 school students, Ima-gine R cardholders,disabled, under 18s*: free.

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Painting: Marie-Antoinette in the Trianon park, by Antoine Vestier, around 1775 © AKG-images; collection, Paris, rights reserved.

the château de Versailles would like to thank its generous patrons

World Monuments Fund France (Queen’s Theatre), the American Friends of Versailles (Cool Pavilion), the French Heritage Society (Grotto), Peugeot SA (Mill) and the Montres Breguet SA society, “Grand Mécène” of the Minister for Culture and Com-munication that has allowed for the important restoration project of the Petit Trianon, French Pavilion to take place.

This magnificent ensemble is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This listing recognises the universal and exceptional value of cultural and natural heritage sites so that they may be preserved for the benefit of humanity.

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the Grand Trianon... A place of relaxation, far fromthe Etiquette and tiring ritualsof the court

The Grand Trianon that you will discover today is a place which successively hosted Louis XIV and her family, Louis XV and Marie Lezsczinska, Napoleon I and Marie-Louise, Louis-Philippe and Marie-Amélie. They all left their mark on the place. While the architecture and the decor still date from the time of Louis XIV, the furniture made by the great cabinet-maker Jacob-Desmalter comes from the reign of Napoleon I, because the Trianon, like Versailles, was emptied of its furniture during the Revolution.Between 1962 and 1966, André Malraux had the Grand Trianon restored for General de Gaulle who reserved the Trianon-sous-Bois wing for the French Head of State and the left wing for special guests of the Republic.In 1668, Louis XIV bought the village of Trianon, and commissioned his architects to build a house for enjoying light collations, called Trianon de porcelaine because of the blue and white tiles used to cover the façades. Too fragile, too cramped and no longer to the king’s taste, it was replaced in 1687 by the marble Trianon built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Via the northern line of the Grand Canal, Louis XIV could travel there by boat to spend a few days with his family.

Adorned in an original manner with green and red marble columns and pilasters, the architecture of the Grand Trianon is Italian in style, with a single storey covered with a flat roof dissimu-lated by a balustrade. The two wings are linked by a peristyle whose transparency associates gardens and buil-dings more closely than anywhere else. While Versailles is a tree garden, Trianon is a flower garden. Its multicoloured and sweet-smelling flower beds earned it the name of the Palace of Flora, in reference to the goddess of flowers. They also inspi-red all the carved and painted decor, both indoors and outdoors, and particularly in the galerie des Cotelle, named after the painter who adored it for Louis XIV with views of the gardens of Versailles and Trianon.

After a year of restoration work... The Petit Trianonopens its doors once again

Located in the heart of the national estate of Versailles, the château du Petit Trianon has also been completely restored thanks to the sponsorship of the watchmaking company Montres Breguet, a major sponsor of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. For the first time, the entire interior area of the Petit Trianon is accessible to the public. This Pleasure Pavilion was built between 1762 and 1768 by the architect A.-J. Gabriel and decorated by the sculptor H. Guibert for the private use of Louis XV (1710-1774) and Madame de Pompadour (1722-1764), and is surroun-ded by a “botanical garden” laid out starting in 1750 by the Richard father and son gardening team, and the botanist

B. de Jussieu. It was officially opened in June 1769 in the presence of Madame Du Barry. The history of the Petit Trianon was especially marked by the presence of Marie-Antoinette who took possession of it in 1774.After the turmoil of the Revolutionary period, Napoleon I allocated the estate to his sister, princess Pauline Borghese. Then, Louis-Philippe gave the estate to his son, the Duc d’Orléans. Subsequently, the Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, moved into the Petit Trianon and organised an exhibition in homage to Marie-Antoinette.

After a presentation of the everyday world of Marie-Antoinette up to her departure on 5 October 1789, you can now get to know the other prominent figures who have lived in and transformed the small château of Louis XV over the centuries.

marie-antoinette’s estate... Intimacy and refinement

The restoration of the Estate of Marie-Antoinette is part of the “Grand Versailles” project whose outstanding ambition is to give back to Versailles its baroque and classical contrasts, its discretion and extravagance, its masculine inspiration – that of Louis XIV – and its feminine inspiration – that of Marie-Antoinette after the contribu-tion of Madame de Pompadour. The Petit Trianon and its gardens are indissolubly linked to the memory of Marie-Antoinette: she was the only queen to have imposed her taste on Versailles, turning her back on the old Court and its traditions. On her Trianon estate, she found the haven of intimacy that enabled her to escape from courtly Etiquette. The restoration of the enclosure under Napoleon I’s reign which took in most of the old features – the surrounding walls, gates, railings and ha-has – enable you today to see the estate of the Petit Trianon in all its coherence as a reserved and preserved place centred on its château, dedicated to intimacy.

Its layout and design express the eclecticism and refinement of Marie-Antoinette, combined with an art de vivre linked to a freedom of thought inspired by the theories of the Enlightenment.

From the Guard’s House or the Farm, stroll around the English Garden, the French Garden, the Queen’s Hamlet and enter the French Pavilion, the Queen’s Theatre, the Belvedere, the Temple of Love, the Grotto, the Dairy...