Outdoors Week 2014: The 40-Year Garden: The Making of 1,976 Acres of Versailles

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014, by Sarah Firshein


Photo of the Versailles orangerie via Wikipedia Commons
With its 1,250 chimneys, 67 staircases, and 700 rooms, it’;s no shock that the Palace of Versailles has become for many aspiring kings a siren, of sorts: so many have tried, and...