Château de Versailles 🇫🇷 Grand Trianon - Walking France 4K

The Grand Trianon is a French Baroque style château situated in the northwestern part of the Domain of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was built at the request of King Louis XIV of France as a retreat for himself and his maîtresse-en-titre of the time, the Marquise de Montespan, and as a place where he and invited guests could take light meals (collations) away from the strict étiquette of the royal court. The Grand Trianon is set within its own park, which includes the Petit Trianon (a smaller château built in the 1760s, during the reign of King Louis XV).
Trianon de porcelaine
Between 1663 and 1665, Louis XIV purchased the hamlet of Trianon, on the outskirts of Versailles. In 1670, he commissioned the architect Louis Le Vau to design a porcelain pavilion (Trianon de porcelaine) to be built there.
The façade was made of white and blue Delft-style porcelain (ceramic) tiles from the French manufactures of Rouen, Lisieux, Nevers and Saint-Cloud. Construction began in 1670 and was finished in 1672. Since it was made of porcelain, the building suffered from deterioration. Louis XIV ordered its demolition in 1686 and replaced it with a larger building.
Trianon de marbre
Under Louis XIV
By 1686, the fragile porcelain tiles of the Trianon de porcelaine had deteriorated to such a point that Louis XIV ordered the demolition of the pavilion and its replacement with one made of stronger material. Commission of the work was entrusted to the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Hardouin-Mansart's new structure was twice the size of the porcelain pavilion, and the material used was red marble from Languedoc.[1]
Begun in June 1687, the new construction (as we see it today) was finished in January 1688. It was inaugurated by Louis XIV and his secret wife, the Marquise de Maintenon, during the summer of 1688.
Hardouin-Mansart's early plans for the building were substantially altered during construction, with the original intention of keeping the core of the Trianon de porcelaine intact vetoed in favor of an open-air peristyle with a screen of red marble columns facing onto the garden. At least three other structures were built at the center of the new building and then torn down before the peristyle was settled on, during the frantic building activity of the summer of 1687. The sloping Mansard roof of the original design, meant to harmonize with the roof of the Trianon de porcelaine, was vetoed by the king, who felt it looked too "heavy" on the structure.[2] The long interior gallery which forks west from the main wing was built on the spot of a favorite outdoor promenade that Louis XIV enjoyed at the old Trianon de porcelaine.
The interior design scheme departed significantly from what Louis XIV and his architects had established at the Palace of Versailles. Louis reputedly ordered the architects to "Paint everything white. No gilt or color for the walls of Trianon."[3] This was a departure from the variegated marbles, rich colors, and gilding which defined the interiors at Versailles. Instead of the heavy ornamentation on display in the palace, the walls of the Trianon were covered in delicately carved wood boiseries, with plaster friezes, pilasters, and capitals of noticeably more refined, delicate appearance.[4]
The Trianon was home to Louis XIV's extended family, housing his son and heir le Grand Dauphin from 1703 to 1711. The domain was also a favourite retreat of the Duchess of Burgundy, the wife of his grandson Louis de France, the parents of Louis XV.[citation needed] In the later years of Louis XIV's reign, the Trianon was the residence of the king's sister-in-law Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Dowager Duchess of Orléans and known at court as Madame. Her son, Philippe d'Orléans, future son-in-law of Louis XIV and Regent of France, lived there with his mother. Louis XIV even ordered the construction of a larger wing for the Trianon, which was begun in 1708 by Mansart; this wing, called Trianon-sous-Bois, housed the Orléans family, including Louis XIV's legitimised daughter Françoise-Marie de Bourbon.
The king's youngest grandson, Charles de France, and his wife Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans also resided there. The Orléans family, who had apartments at the Palace of Versailles, were later replaced by Françoise-Marie's sister; the Duchess of Bourbon, Madame la Duchesse, lived at the Trianon and later built the Palais Bourbon in Paris, the design of which copied the Trianon.
André-Charles Boulle, commode Mazarine (Mazarine cabinet), 1708, made for the Grand Trianon
In 1708, the prototypes for the commodes Mazarine, then called bureaux, were delivered to the Trianon by André-Charles Boulle. The first Duke of Antin, Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, director of the king's buildings, wrote to Louis XIV: "I was at the Trianon inspecting the second writing desk by Boulle; it is as beautiful as the other and suits the room perfectly."
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[@lynxcato3327]

Why do they have those big pictures in some of the rooms? Is that supposed to be art? They look hideous, they don't fit, they tarnish the look of the rooms. They have to be in a modern art museum, not there.

[@chrisallen7911]

As an old soul, it is sad for me to see the magnificent rooms with magnificent furniture, but what the rooms are lacking are the plants, decorative objects large and small such as fine books and porcelain that would have adorned the rooms. I find that is the case at most museum mansions or houses. The rooms are gorgeous but lifeless because they lack the personal objects.

[@ANOLIPA]

Thanks for watching and comments Chris Allen!

[@QuangLe-nm7ck]

This brings back such emotions of a far bygone era when extraordinary glamour and beauty were built on the blood and sweat of the ruled majority.

[@AmbientWalking]

Sometimes, we can enjoy life's simple pleasures such as watching a great travel video like we're doing now! Thanks for this!

[@robnewman6101]

I miss the Monarchy of France so much. The Kingdom.

[@robnewman6101]

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[@ANOLIPA]

Me too.

[@robnewman6101]

I bet you do. 😢💔

[@robnewman6101]

I wish France could still be a Royalist Country today in the 21st Century.

[@rafaelprass6891]

Anolipa eu nem sei falar francês mas to tentando...hehehe

[@rafaelprass6891]

Je vous parlez français?

[@TropicalFootage]

Que charme! Maravilha!

[@decombatnfl3639]

And that’s where hell begun!

[@ANOLIPA]

No, hell began in Paris, with politicians, journalists and other envious leftists and the disgrace began... Sorry, this infamy called the French Revolution. Almost everything that France has good and that people like and want to know was built before the Revolution.