Equestrian events held at the Palace of Versailles are yet another example of France’s magnificent venues, which will be hard to outshine at the next Summer Games.
are four years away but Los Angeles has already lost. How can any city top Paris? Beach volleyball is in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, fencing is in the magnificent Grand Palais and archery is at Les Invalides. L.A. could hold the swimming in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s pool and it still wouldn’t measure up.
Versailles first became a royal residence under Louis XIII, who built a hunting lodge here. Louis XIII’s son, Louis XIV, became the absolute monarch of France at the age of four, making him the rare person to ascend to the throne before he could sit on it. Louis XIV built the palace, not by actually doing the construction or taking a second job to finance it, but more in the sense of saying: “I want that.
The next winter was rough, causing a widespread famine. Louis XVI’s official response, “Of course people are starving. It’s the 1700s! What do you expect?” did not sit well with the citizenrēe, and it led to a question that historians have asked for generations: “Is there any way we can blame a woman?”
Enter Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI’s wife. Her purported advice to people who could not afford bread, “Let them eat cake,” made the French even angrier.
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