There's a new Versailles restoration afoot, as experts descend on paintings adorning the billiards room off the Sun King's ...

The Palace of Versailles was the principal residence of the French kings from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XVI. Embellished by several generations of architects, sculptors, decorators and landscape ...

Treasures from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris and The Palace Museum in The Forbidden City in Beijing —both Unesco ...

A watch made for Marie Antoinette and described as “the world’s most famed watch” is to go on display for the first time in ...

But there was another European monarch who reigned for even longer: King Louis XIV of France ... French society would have to ...

A watch made for Marie Antoinette is to go on display for the first time in the UK, at London's Science Museum. Abraham-Louis ...

In Versailles we see her earning Louis’ trust ... The result is a pretty fair portrayal of King Louis XIV and his court, something historians can verify, within which a much darker secret ...

Louis XIV moved the French government and court ... the government left, and Versailles was practically abandoned. It was eventually brought back to life, turned into a museum, and in the 20th ...

From the gardens of Versailles to suburban America, why are well-manicured lawn central to our cultural identity? When King ...

Cantatas I to VI Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and NDR choir 157 min Watch the programmeMore Watch Thomas Hengelbrock and Orchestre de chambre de Paris Paris Pantheon 57 min Watch the programme ...