Versailles: a biography of a palace

Preface

1. Builders of the Labyrinth

2. "Rome in one palace"

3. A Gilded Cage?

4. "How right to insist on ceremony..."

5. Follow the King!

6. "All the pleasures"

7. Comforts, or Lack of Them

8. Behind Closed Doors

9. A Garden with Flowers

10. "The royal zoo"

11. After the Deluge

Notes

Sources

Index