Versailles equals out of control

So I'm trying to remember this little trip since it was now about 3 and a half weeks ago or so. I feel bad but again that week got a little crazy since we were leaving and staying busy when we got back. Sooooo Versailles.

Versailles is the palace built by Louis XIV who was the king of France in 1682. It was once a little country village but now is a suburb of Paris. To get there I rode with Jenny as far as the Trocodero. That is where she changes trains to get to work and I caught the suburb train to get out of Paris. It was about a 20 minute ride by train to get to the Versailles stop which is the end of the line. I got out of the station and it was about a 5 minute walk to the palace or chateau as it is called. The line seemed like it would take forever to get a ticket but I cruised right through. The line to get into the palace was actually longer than the ticket line but I got all settled in about an hour and a half from when I got on the trian at the Trocadero.

This palace is the picture of extreme ridiculousness. The gate is encrusted in gold along with the statues and tops of the buildings. It was so crazy just to see the outlandishness of the middle ages kings.
The rooms were just as ridiculous and outlandish as the exterior. The king and queen each had their own wing of the palace. Each with several rooms. There were sitting rooms, bedrooms, meeting rooms, libraries, apparently anything a king or queen would need. There were tons of epic paintings in each room. There were tons of family portraits and paintings of the kings doing epic things like hunting and saving the world and what not. The paintings also had a lot of Greek and Roman influences. The kings were often portrayed as gods or doing god like things.

One of the coolest rooms was the Hall of Mirrors. This is a huge dancing and meeting room. The room is full of statues and chandeliers. The mirrors are on the interior side of the room and perfectly reflect the windows opposite them on the exterior side of the building. It was purdy awesome.
My favorite room however was a room, I can't remember what it was called, that had a paintings of all of France's major military victories from Tours around 700 AD until Napoleon in the early 1800s. My favorite painting was of the victory at Yorktown. It was an American victory but the French helped I guess haha.
After parousing the rest of the palace I stepped out into the gardens. I can't even describe how big these are except to say that it can be measured in acres. There are hedges everywhere that hide many ponds and fountains and flowers and it goes on forever and ever. It's pure craziness. I snapped a few pictures and what not. I just went through them quickly cause I was getting tired and I was all by myself but you could easily spend all day in that place.

After viewing the chateau it was easy to see how the French Revolution happened in 1789. The whole palace is ridiculous. It had to be a super drain on the resources of the country. The average citizen had nothing while the rich were partying and encrusting everything they had in gold. But the rich got theirs during the revolution. Revolutionary commoners from Paris stormed the chateau and captured the king. Then they preceded to cut his head off and his lovely queen Antoinette's as well. Lovely.

So ends the Versailles saga.