A hunting lodge built by King Louis XIII in 1623 was transformed into a Royal palace by Louis XIV in the 1660s, now stands as a majestic monument, as a reminder of the royal grandeur of the Old Regime, a symbol of Imperial France and an ode to the revolutionary epoch, the deterioration and revival in the post World War 2 era to revive the glory of the vast expanses of the Royal Castle and gardens that lay roughly 30 kms from the center of Paris.
