Versailles

How To Use Versailles In A Sentence

• Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles.
• After his sojourn at Versailles, he brought with him a vogue for French and Continental cuisine.
• The Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace settlements signed at the end of the First World War, required that Germany pay the Allies large sums of money as reparations for the damage caused by the war.
• One Russian businessman even ordered an exact copy of a room at the palace of Versailles for his house in Knightsbridge, complete with identical cornices and plasterwork, as well as real gold leaf and plating.
• Versailles was the principal residence of the kings of France until 1793.
• Most fantastic and, as it proved, most disastrous of all the follies of Versailles, was the creation of the free city of Danzig and what was called the Polish Corridor. The Shape of Things to Come
• And when I was hoping to comprehend why "La force" did not "fonder" anything I would hear Mr. Hoffman whisper, "When you think that Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette passed the last evening they ever spent in Versailles in this theater! In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
• He insisted on the scenes of the 5th and 6th of October, and on the dinners of the Life Guards, alleging that she had at that period framed a plot, which obliged the people to go to Versailles to frustrate it. Archive 2008-10-12
• In The Phoenix, the first appearance that a Zeppelin airship makes is on its way to the Allies as part payment of the reparations bill Germany incurred in the Treaty of Versailles.
• One may well think the whole idea of war guilt foolish, and the clause in the Versailles Treaty attributing such guilt to Germany "caddish," as Harold Nicolson called it. Churchill and His Myths