Overlooking the Versailles park near Paris, the Hall of Mirrors is
the biggest room in the Palace of Versailles.
It owes
its name to the seventeen mirrors facing seventeen arcaded windows
overlooking the gardens.
Each arch contains twenty-one mirrors with a total
of 357 used in the decoration of the Hall of Mirrors.
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The Hall of Mirrors in the palace of Versailles |
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The Hall of Mirrors is on first floor of Versailles palace
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The construction of the Hall of Mirrors began in 1678.
It was the grandiose setting of the 17th century French superpower
monarchy's celebrations.
The Hall of Mirrors saw too the 1871 proclamation of the German
empire by Otto van Bismarck and the 1918 signature of the Versailles treaty which ended
world war One (below).
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