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Day Trip from Paris to Versailles
The Palace of Versailles with its Baroque château and gardens is a top sightseeing destination in France and an easy day trip by RER train line C5 or car from Paris.
day trip from paris • château palace of versailles • rer train in paris • sightseeing in france • forfaits loisirs château de versailles

See Versailles Palace Near Paris
Long opening hours and various discount ticket passes are available for day trips from Paris in France to the Estate of Versailles with its château (palace) and gardens.
day trip from paris • château palace of versailles • paris museum pass • rer train in paris • sightseeing in france

Louis XIV and Versailles
Louis XIV began the Palace of Versialles in 1669. Upon completion, Versailles was the largest royal residence in Europe. Thousands of laborers worked on Versailles.
palace of versailles • versailles • louis xiv • paris • louis

Add Versailles To Paris List
While in Paris, plan a day to see the Chateau de Versailles. Home to kings and queens, such as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, this palace is an extravagant must-see.
chateau de versailles • versailles palace • louis xiv • louis xvi • marie antoinette

Versailles Hall of Mirrors Reopens
Although the Hall of Mirrors was never completely closed to the public, it has now been reopened in its entirety after a $16 million restoration.
chateau of versailles • hall of mirrors • palace of versailles • france • sun king

Versailles Time Slip
In August of 1901, two visitors to the gardens at Versailles caught a glimpse of life before the French Revolution.
suite 101 • paranormal • jodee redmond • versailles • time

The Petit Trianon
This is the first article in a three part series about Marie Antoinette's garden at the Petit Trianon.
trianon • versailles

Where to Sleep? Finding Accommodation in Ile-de-France
Finding accommodation in Paris and the surrounding region.
paris • hotel • france • versailles • fontainebleau

Restaurants in Little Havana Miami
Years after a chance meeting with the owners of one of Little Havana's most beloved Cuban restaurants, I finally sit down to a lunch fit for a royal court.
little havana miami restaurants • versailles restaurant • versailles bakery • cuban food • calle ocho

Save with the Paris Museum Pass
Travelers to France can save with the Paris Museum Pass and cheaply see sights, monuments, palaces, and galleries such as the Louvre, D'Orsay, Pompidou, and Versailles.
paris museum pass • forfaits loisirs château de versailles • sightseeing in france • day trip from paris • palace of versailles

50 Years German Basic Law: A Lesson from Weimar
With the German Bundestag and Government moving from Bonn to Berlin, this summer a historic circle will be closed: German politics have returned to where they started in 1871, after the foundation of the Reich by Bismarck. Unlike Bonn, Berlin had been a symbol for some of the worst episodes in German history. But the city that paved the way to disaster was Weimar, the former cultural capital of Goethe and Schiller. In the year 1919 the Assembly of Weimar approved contemporarily the Constitution of Weimar and the opprobrious peace treaty of Versailles, thus laying the grounds for the first unlucky democratic experience in modern Geman history. Fortunately the Germans have learned from the catastrophe of the Weimar Republic and the Basic Law approved in May 1949 has proven a solid ground on which the new democracy in Bonn could establish a stable democratic culture. The achievements of the Basic Law will even guarantee the stability and reliability of the new Berlin Republic.
bonn • weimar • berlin • basic law • berlin-umzug

Celebrate the Millennium in Europe
The media has been "millennium crazed" for several years now. TV shows and movies play up the prophesies of chaos and destruction, and we can't open a newspaper without yet seeing one more reason why our computers-banks-offices-schools-etc. will crash as the clock strikes midnight on December 31.
greenwich • italy • france • paris • eiffel tower

Madame Tussaud: Artist in Wax
A look into the life and times of one of the world's most fascinating female entrepreneurs.
madame tussaud • franco-prussian war • reign of terror • marie antoinette • josephine de beauharnais

Queen Marie Antoinette
The life and times of a much misunderstood and maligned queen.
queen marie antoinette • house of bourbon • the holy roman empire • king louis xvi • versailles

The House of Bourbon
The House of Bourbon saw the rise of the absolute monarch in France and the end of the French Monarchy. The palace of Versailles was built by a bourbon king.
the house of bourbon • louis xvi • louis xv • louis xiv • louis xiii

Zwinger Palace is Dresden Must See
The Zwinger Palace is one of Dresden, Germany's best attractions. Built to rival Versailles, the Palace features beautiful gardens, an Old Masters museum and more.
dresden germany • elbe river • zwinger palace • versailles • augustus the strong

Beast of Gevaudan - Werewolf or a Huge Wolf Like Beast?
The Beast of Gevaudan terrorized the inhabitants of the area, roaming the countryside and savagely killing men, women and children. Those who saw it said it was a large wolf like creature. The King of France sent soldiers to kill the beast, however, as many time as the creature was shot, it seem impervious to bullets until a hunter, believing it was a werewolf shot it in the heart with a silver bullet. The case is well documented, but what was the animal? Mutant wolf? Or werewolf?
werewolf • wolf • paranormal • cryptozoology • history

Leaving on a Jet Plane
. . . taking off!!!!
budget travel • airline • jerusalem • israel

France Tours: Paris Day Trips
Hop on a tour bus or train to the homes of the Sun King and Napoleon III, the spires of Cathédrale Notre Dame & the spot where Germany surrendered in World War I.
paris day trips • france tours • chartres cathedral • château de compìegne • palace of versailles

Good Taste Can Be Vulgar
Good taste isn't always as good as people think.
yard art • tacky • vulgar

Lafayette and Marie Antoinette (Part 1)
How the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, temporarily saved Queen Marie Antoinette from death.
lafayette • marquis • general • american revolution • revolutionary war

Historic St. James Parish
St. James parish is a great place to be from and to visit. Do you like history? You'll love the St. James historic site tour.
st. james • parish • louisiana • history • cabahanoce plantation

Part II-The Splendor of Renaissance Gardens
This article is Part II of the series on Renaissance gardens.
renaissance gardens • louis xiv • versailles • betsy g.fryberger • iris and b. gerald cantor center for visual arts

Salvage of the High Seas Fleet
More than forty of the 74 ships of the Imperial German Navy's High Sea Fleet only left their final anchorage as scrap if at all.
sms baden • sms frankfurt • german ship us navy • ernest cox • greatest salvage opertation

Scuttling of the High Seas Fleet
Interned at the close of World War One in Scotland the German fleet chose to scuttle itself at anchor rather than surrender
november 21 1918 • treaty versailles • last commander of the fleet • june 21 1919 • paragraphe elf bestatigen

Toei Animation's next movies
Toei Animation has a whole slew of titles coming out in the next year, including a remake of Rose of Versailles, and a movie based on the Pretty Cure anime series.
toei animation • clannad • osamu dezaki • the rose of versailles • yes! precure 5

Europe's Second Dark Ages? (book review)
Mark Mazower, in his new book, DARK CONTINENT: EUROPE'S 20TH CENTURY, offers a pessimistic, yet quite compelling, survey of the history of twentieth-century Europe.
revisionist • european history • review

A Campaign For Unity: Cripp's Unity Campaign, 1935-39, Part II**
Part II of a three-part series about Sir Stafford Cripps and his Unity Campaign during the 1930s, a political campaign aimed at stopping Fascism.
richard stafford cripps • cripps • labour party • great britain • unity campaign

Internment High Seas Fleet 1918
At the close of World War One, the victorious allies ordered that the powerful and undefeated High Seas Fleet present itself for interment until a final peace.
kaiser wilhelm ii • kaiserliche marine • high seas fleet • interned at scapa flow • admiral franz von hipper

Must-See Paris Attractions
Paris offers a complete menu of interesting attractions to keep one occupied for days. The following is a description of some of these sights.
paris • sightseeing • notre dame • cathedral • notre dame cathedral

Schloss & Park Linderhof, Germany
Schloss Linderhof, the only fantasy castle Bavarian King Ludwig completed, is a palace in a park with fountains and Venus grotto near Oberammergau and Ettal, Germany.
schloss linderhof castle park • bavarian king ludwig ii • fantasy palace in germany • sightseeing in bavaria • day trips from munich

The Montgolfier Brothers' Balloon
One hundered and twenty years before the Wright Brothers these two French brothers produced the world's first functional flying machine.
montgolfier • joseph • etienne • jacques • hot air

EDITH WILSON, OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT?
Edith Wilson took on extraordinary powers during the illness of her husband, Woodrow Wilson. Some even felt she was acting as president. Was she our first woman president?
woodrow wilson • wife • edith • president

POLITICS IN THE GARDEN: LIBERALS UNITE!
liberal gardeners • conservative gardeners • politics • idealogy • idealogies

Jardins Anglo-Chinois
The jardin anglo-chinois grew out of the English landscape style, but it was just a little bit different.
anglo-chinese gardens • jardins anglo-chinois • garden design • french

Living Poems
Gardens can be designed to be living poems.
living poems • gardens • design

The Deaths ofAustria and Czechoslovakia - Part 3
It is a perfectly valid argument that Munich is the military's shame. The combined Allied High Commands must have know Germany's military strength and should have insisted that their individual governments listen to whatever plan they might have presented to confront Hitler with force, and not talk.

The Sounds and Voices of Munich

Combining Films and Travel
For those who enjoy movies and traveling, films can be a way to revisit a place again and again.
movies set in europe • films set in paris • movies set on french riviera • sound of music set in salzburg austria • movies filmed in prague

Fondation Cartier
Across the boulevard from Montparnasse Cemetery, cutting-edge art and architecture join forces at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.
fondation caratier • paris art museums • jean nouvel • art and architecture in paris • contemporary art in paris

Free Rick Steves Podcast Tours
Why pay for a tour of attractions like the Sistine Chapel and the Louvre? Travel icon Rick Steves is now offering free podcast tours for download.
free • podcasts • self-guided tours • france • italy

Hiking in the Alps
Clear air, blue skies, panoramic views. Hiking in the Alps is always a wonderful adventure, especially when there are few tourists. and trails are uncrowded.
adventure travel • hiking • europe • alps • italy

Mayonnaise or Mayonesa or Mahonesa
The brief origins of this well-known sauce from Mahon one of the Balearic Islands and a recipe for Mayonnaise or Mayonesa or Mahonesa.
the origins of mayonnaise have always been in disp • spanish claim its origin as salsa de mahonesa • mahon sauce from mahon city in menorca • menorca is one of the balearic islands • recipe for mayonnaie

New York's Sherry's Restaurant
A brief look at Sherry's, the sophisticated meeting place for New York aristocrats and social climbers of the late nineteenth century.
louis sherry restaurant • sherry's restaurant • louis sherry • new york restaurants • horseback dinner

Tell All Added To NA Cup Records
In this year's North America Cup at Canada's Mohawk Raceway, Tell All paced a personal best time and joined other record holders in two other categories.
tell all north america cup winner • cup elimination winner tell all • list winners north america cup • tell all personal best time • tell all trainer

War Pass Injured, Out of Derby
An ankle fracture to War Pass has shaken up the Kentucky Derby picture once again. Jockeys have jumped to different Derby mounts. Monba and Gayego earned their way in.
war pass injury • jockeys and derby horses • new derby qualifiers • monba gayego graded stakes • zito and war pass

Who Invented the Elevator?
Like is so often true, the answer depends upon your point of view. If looking for the first documented device that could do the job the answer is Archimedes, but . . .
invention • inventor • elevator • american • elisha graves otis

18th CENTURY MUSEUMS by Mary Haegele
Museums that are responsible for collections of 18th century artifacts or existed themselves since the 18th century.
century • british • museums • antiquities • japansese

2008 Cannes Film Festival Underway
The 61st Annual Film Festival began May 14th and will run through May 25th.
cannes film festival 2008 • angelina jolie cannes • jolie twins at cannes • new indiana jones movie • kung fu panda cannes

Bento Box in the Heartland
One woman's journey through the lack of Japanese tradition and food in the United States.
bento box in the heartland my japanese girlhood in • bento box • japanese food • japanese meal • japanese recipe