Palace of Versailles Trivia Questions

It was built as a hunting lodge for Louis XIII, not Henry IV. Louis XIV later expanded it into the grand palace we know.

Versailles boasts 2,300 rooms, and Marie Antoinette had her own private theater, the Théâtre de la Reine, built in the Petit Trianon.

The Hameau de la Reine, built for Marie Antoinette in the 1780s, was a mock village at Versailles that included a functioning dairy producing milk and cheese.

André Le Nôtre designed the gardens; Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower over 200 years later. No connection.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, officially ending World War I.

Louis XIV melted the 17 massive silver tables and candelabra in the Hall of Mirrors in 1689 to pay for the Nine Years' War.

Nobles were required to live there to control them, but no evidence supports hidden peepholes—etiquette was the surveillance tool.

The original chapel was demolished in 1682 to construct the Hall of Mirrors, not because it was too plain.