The Palace of Versailles: Louis Xiv's Power Landscape and French Historical Memory (milestone Library)
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When Louis XIII set out to build his hunting palace in sparsely populated Versailles in 1623, he must not have imagined that this small two-story building would be expanded by his son Louis XIV into a magnificent, gorgeous and luxurious palace complex in Europe. For hundreds of years, this unique "French garden" has witnessed France's glorious and turbulent history, and has also triggered imitation by European countries. In this book, French history expert Colin Jones uses the latest research results to explain the unusual rise and fall of the Palace of Versailles, examines its process from construction and repair to becoming an eternal historical heritage, and explores how this pearl in the treasure house of human art gradually gained a status comparable to myth from a landscape architecture that demonstrated royal power, and finally became a symbol of French historical memory.
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