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 | | After Louis XIV, several smaller buildings were added to the Versailles area by Louis XV and Louis XVI including the Grand Trianon, the Petit Trianon, and the Hamlet of Marie Antoinette known as Petit hameau, which, in a way, is one of the world's first open air museums. |
 | | The Grand Trianon, 1678, [[Jules Hardouin-Mansart, architect]] The Petit Trianon The magnificence of Versailles is so blatant that modern tourists are moved to inquire, "How much did this cost", a question they are never inspired to ask at Chartres. |
 | | Marie-Antoinette's pastoral pondside Hameau in the park, built in 1783 At the Revolution the paintings and sculpture, like the crown jewels, were consigned to the new Musée du Louvre as part of the cultural patrimony of France. |
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