• Louis XIV welcoming us to his humble abode
  • The madness in front of the Chateau that we luckily avoided
  • Louis' bed - gold much?
  • Another detail of his bedroom
  • Louis' son apparently had better taste - this is his bedroom
  • The infamous Hall of Mirrors
  • The Chateau from afar
  • Some of the manicured gardens
  • The grand fountain at the top near the Chateau
  • Marie Antoinette's private village where she liked to play milkmaid
  • Marie Antoinette's private lake and playhouse
  • Another of Marie's playhouses - supposedly she modeled it after a Dutch village
  • Marie Antoinette also had livestock to make the village more realistic - Anna ponders the goats
  • The Chateau from the grand canal - notice the inordinate amount of people in the  distance
  • All the fountains turned on at 3 p.m. and performed to music until 5 p.m.
  • Notice the fountains in the distance as well
  • We just keep getting farther and farther away from the Chateau!
  • Anna and I in front of the grand canal
  • The Grand Eaux Finale
  • Notre Dame in profile
  • Early evening Easter mass at the Notre Dame
  • I was hoping they would bring out the crown of thorns but we didn't see it
  • Some of the beautiful stained glass in the church
  • Outside of the Notre Dame is Point Zero from which all distances from Paris are measured
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