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VERSAILLESEnormity…
* half-mile long
* 1,852 individual apartments
* 1,252 fireplaces
* 2,143 windows
* stables for over 2,000 royal horses
* 19, 262 acres of hunting grounds & gardens (30 sq. miles)
(entire estate larger than the island of Manhattan, NY)
* 235 acres of FORMAL gardens
* 15 small parks covering 4,200 acres
* 14, 827 acre hunting park
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Enormity…
* 5,000 French nobles REQUIRED to live there
* 7,000 servants
* 4,000 foot soldiers as guards
* 4,000 guards on horseback
* During construction:
* 36,000 workers
* 6,000 horses
* Indoor orangerie 510’ x 69’, held 2000 orange trees in winter
* Grand Canal 4,937’ long x 204’ wide (east-west)
3,291’ long x 204’ wide (north-south)
* Over 1,400 fountains and pools
Hall of Mirrors…* 35’ long x 246’ long x 40’ tall* Solid silver tables and planters under each
window* Curtains contained 130 pounds of gold thread* 17 large silver chandeliers and 26 small ones
holding 1000 candles lit the room
Cost…* In 1999 dollars approx. $2 Billion * Human lives – hundreds died of:
* illness* buried alive in mud slides* trampled by the thousands of horses used
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