VERSAILLESEnormity…

* half-mile long

* 1,852 individual apartments

* 1,252 fireplaces

* 2,143 windows

* stables for over 2,000 royal horses

* 19, 262 acres of hunting grounds & gardens (30 sq. miles)

(entire estate larger than the island of Manhattan, NY)

* 235 acres of FORMAL gardens

* 15 small parks covering 4,200 acres

* 14, 827 acre hunting park

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Enormity…

* 5,000 French nobles REQUIRED to live there

* 7,000 servants

* 4,000 foot soldiers as guards

* 4,000 guards on horseback

* During construction:

* 36,000 workers

* 6,000 horses

* Indoor orangerie 510’ x 69’, held 2000 orange trees in winter

* Grand Canal 4,937’ long x 204’ wide (east-west)

3,291’ long x 204’ wide (north-south)

* Over 1,400 fountains and pools

Hall of Mirrors…* 35’ long x 246’ long x 40’ tall* Solid silver tables and planters under each

window* Curtains contained 130 pounds of gold thread* 17 large silver chandeliers and 26 small ones

holding 1000 candles lit the room

Cost…* In 1999 dollars approx. $2 Billion * Human lives – hundreds died of:

* illness* buried alive in mud slides* trampled by the thousands of horses used

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