Versailles – Travels with Tricia

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A kitten pauses among the foliage of a shaded garden in Versailles.

A Day at Versailles: Visiting the Palace of the Sun King

The golden entryway to the Versailles Palace, on a blue sky day.

On a September day that was replete with sunshine, we voyaged to Versailles, the decadent Baroque palace of France’s roi soleil (sun king). As Shawn and I wandered among the palace’s 250 gardened acres and peered through windows into the gilded interiors — just as a subject might have done 300 years ago — I was remindedContinue reading “A Day at Versailles: Visiting the Palace of the Sun King”