Versailles

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city commune of France

Versailles is a historic French city best known for the opulent Palace of Versailles, a former royal residence and a symbol of absolute monarchy and French cultural grandeur.

Aliases (11)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city → commune of France →
contains	Gardens of Versailles → Grand Trianon → Lycée Hoche → Palace of Versailles → Petit Trianon → Royal Chapel of Versailles → Royal Opera of Versailles → Versailles Cathedral → Versailles-Chantiers station → Versailles-Rive Droite station → Versailles-Rive Gauche station →
country	France →
developedBy	Louis XIV →
economicActivity	services → tourism →
eventLocation	Women’s March on Versailles → opening of the Estates-General of 1789 → signing of the Treaty of Versailles →
foundedAsCapitalOfCourt	1682 →
foundedBy	Louis XIII →
hasEducationalInstitution	Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines →
hasJudicialInstitution	Administrative Court of Appeal of Versailles → Court of Appeal of Versailles →
hasTwinTown	Nuremberg → Potsdam → Pushkin, Saint Petersburg → Windsor and Maidenhead →
hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite	Palace and Park of Versailles →
historicalRole	de facto capital of the Kingdom of France → political center under Louis XIV → seat of French royal court → site of major diplomatic events →
knownFor	French cultural heritage → French royal history → Palace of Versailles → symbol of absolute monarchy →
locatedIn	Yvelines department → Île-de-France region →
locatedInMetropolitanArea	Paris metropolitan area →
locatedNear	Paris →
population	over 80,000 inhabitants →
postalCode	78000 →
role	prefecture of Yvelines → subprefecture of arrondissement of Versailles →
timeZone	Central European Summer Time → Central European Time →
tourismImportance	major international tourist destination →

Referenced by (115)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes → Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun → Françoise Marie de Bourbon → Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon → Kings of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis Dieudonné ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis XIV of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis, Grand Dauphin ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine ("Palace of Versailles") → Louise de La Vallière ("Château de Versailles") → Madame de Pompadour ("Palace of Versailles") → Maria Theresa of Spain ("Palace of Versailles") → Marie Antoinette ("Palace of Versailles") →	residence
Court of Appeal of Versailles → Gardens of the Palace of Versailles → Grand Trianon → Lycée Hoche → Petit Trianon → Royal Chapel of Versailles → Salle du Jeu de Paume, Versailles → Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines → Versailles Cathedral → Versailles-Chantiers station → Versailles-Château–Rive-Gauche station → Versailles-Rive Droite station →	locatedIn
Ange-Jacques Gabriel → Antoine Coysevox → Cardinal de Bernis → Charles Le Brun ("Palace of Versailles") → Charles de La Fosse → Guillaume Coustou the Elder → Hyacinthe Rigaud → Jean-Baptiste Colbert → Jean-Baptiste Pigalle → Jules Hardouin-Mansart → Nicolas Fouquet →	workLocation
Charles X of France → Jacques Hadamard ("Versailles, France") → Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse ("Versailles, France") → Louis XV of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis XV of France → Louis XVI of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis XVI of France → Philip V of Spain ("Palace of Versailles") → Philip V of Spain → Philip V of Spain ("Versailles, France") →	birthPlace
Louis Dieudonné ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis Dieudonné → Louis XIV of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis XIV of France → Louis XV of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis XV of France → Maria Theresa of Spain → Maria Theresa of Spain ("Palace of Versailles") → Marie Thérèse of France →	deathPlace
Versailles ("Palace of Versailles") → Versailles ("Gardens of Versailles") → Versailles ("Royal Opera of Versailles") → Yvelines → Yvelines ("Palace of Versailles") →	contains
Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon ("Court of Louis XIV at Versailles") → Louis, Grand Dauphin → Madame de Montespan ("Court of Louis XIV at Versailles") → Marie Thérèse of France ("French royal court at Versailles") → Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ("French royal court at Versailles") →	court
Ferdinand de Lesseps → Jean-Antoine Houdon → Louis XVIII of France ("Palace of Versailles") → Louis XVIII of France → Philippe, Duke of Anjou →	placeOfBirth
26th General Conference on Weights and Measures → French Revolution → Women’s March on Versailles → Women’s March on Versailles ("Palace of Versailles") →	location
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes → Madame de Pompadour → Philippe II, Duke of Orléans →	placeOfDeath
First Treaty of Versailles (1756) → Treaty of Trianon → Treaty of Versailles →	signedIn
Versailles ("Palace of Versailles") → Yvelines ("Palace of Versailles") →	knownFor
Salle du Jeu de Paume, Versailles → Versailles-Château–Rive-Gauche station →	municipality
RER C → Versailles-Château–Rive-Gauche station →	serves
Yvelines →	administrativeCentre
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes →	burialPlace
Yvelines →	capital
Lycée Hoche →	city
Estates-General of 1789 →	convenedInCity
Women’s March on Versailles →	endPoint
Court of Appeal of Versailles →	hasSeat
Versailles ("Palace and Park of Versailles") →	hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite
Grand Paris urban area →	includesSubregion
Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso ("Palace of Versailles") →	inspiredBy
Parliament of France ("Palace of Versailles") →	jointSessionLocation
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station →	locatedNear
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force →	locationHeadquarters
Allied Supreme War Council →	locationOfHeadquarters
First Treaty of Versailles (1756) ("Palace of Versailles") →	locationOfSigning
Louis XVIII of France →	marriagePlace
Estates-General of 1789 ("Palace of Versailles") →	metAt
Versailles, Kentucky ("Versailles, France") →	namedAfter
Versailles-Rive Droite station ("Versailles city centre") →	nearbyAttraction
Grand Trianon ("Estate of Versailles") →	partOf
Edmé Bouchardon →	placeOfActivity
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine ("Palace of Versailles") →	placeOfMarriage
École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr ("Versailles area") →	previousLocation
Louis XV of France ("Palace of Versailles") →	primaryResidence
Yvelines →	regionSeat
Versailles-Rive Droite station →	servesCity
RER C ("Palace of Versailles") →	servesTouristAttraction
Treaty of Versailles ("Palace of Versailles") →	signedAt
Potsdam →	twinnedWith