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September 21, 2012 by Max Distro LLC

Galerie des Batailles, Versailles

Galerie des Batailles, Versailles

Galerie des Batailles, Versailles

The Hall of Battles is longer than the Hall of Mirrors, 394 feet, and is lined with huge paintings of French victories through the ages, including oils by Delacroix and Fragonard. Its creation was the idea of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and it replaced apartments which had been occupied in the 17th and 18th centuries. There are literally hundreds of busts and 39 paintings, I will not present them all.

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Filed Under: History, Museums, Painting, Versailles, Weapons and War Tagged With: Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Brittany, Catholic, Charles the Bold, Eugène Delacroix, Galerie des Batailles, Hall of Battles, Henry IV, King Clovis, King Henery VIII, King Louis VII, Kurt Buzard MD, Louis XIV, Museums, Painting, Palace of Versailles, Saint Louis, The Siege of Yorktown, Versailles, William the Conquerer

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