Palace of Versailles: East front

Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart
1668--85




Center: entrance gate with Royal Arms in gilded wrought iron (by Jules Hardouin-Mansart);
right: Royal courtyard with the east elevation of the Gabriel Pavilions and the Royal Chapel
 

left: Equestrian statue of Louis XIV;
Center: Marble Court, frontal view, from the east (the far central court is the Marble Court)


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