Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles was a royal palace located in Versailles.
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Louis XIV established Versailles as the seat of French power in 1682, and his great-grandson - Louis XV - continued to use the Palace as both a home and Royal Court during his own reign. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])
Under Louis XV, Versailles was home not only to his mistresses but also to as many as 20,000 courtiers, and the costs of maintaining the royal court were estimated at 25% of the French governments expenditure. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])
The Clockwork Droids of the SS Madame de Pompadour opened time windows that acted as doorways to the palace. They opened them throughout the life of Madame de Pompadour. They believed that because their ship shared her name, only her brain would do for its processor.
In 1758, Pompadour was thirty-seven, as was the ship. The Droids took it to be the right time to take her head. They invaded the palace. The Tenth Doctor closed off the time windows and convinced them that with no link to their ship, they no longer had a purpose, so they stopped working.
The Doctor told Madame de Pompadour that there would be several instances of damage around the palace because of the closure of the time windows. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])
In 1770, the Mona Lisa was in the palace. (AUDIO: Masquerade [+]Loading...["Masquerade (audio story)"])
The human colony on Hephastos had an exact replica of the Palace of Versailles, (AUDIO: Babblesphere [+]Loading...["Babblesphere (audio story)"]) and the mansion and grounds of the Braxiatel Collection were based off it, (PROSE: Theatre of War [+]Loading...["Theatre of War (novel)"]) as was Citizen-176's home within Auteur's Town. (PROSE: White Canvas [+]Loading...["White Canvas (novel)"])
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A Clockwork Droid met by the Twelfth Doctor in 18th century Cornwall wore an outfit that wouldn't have looked out of place there. (PROSE: Night of the Kraken: Marker 66 [+]Loading...{"marker":"66","1":"Night of the Kraken (novel)"})
