Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.
I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the museums open until dawn. You can go and hang out in Versailles in the middle of the night and watch the sun come up.
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States
Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.
The Versailles Dictate cannot be an eternal document, because not only its economic, but also its spiritual and moral premises are wrong.
After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
Napoleon Paintings & Chalcography from the Palace of Versailles (1800-1804, From Bonaparte to Napoleon)