Seventeen miles from Paris and within the grounds of the Château de Versailles, Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle hotel offers views over the 1663 Le Vau Orangerie, the 3.7 acre d’Eau des Suisses and the former de facto capital of France.As well as the chance of living like an Austrian archduchess, dauphine and royal consort, being addressed as the “Widow Capet” or “Madame Deficit” (or worse) and being generally treated by everybody like the last queen of France and Navarre.Louis X111 built a hunting lodge in Versailles 1623. In 1682, having extended it, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government there. After the French Revolution, between 1810 and 1814, Napoleon used it as his summer residence. The former wooded wetland became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979.

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