The Hall of Mirrors was built to overwhelm foreign ambassadors — and it still works. The 73-meter gallery's 357 mirrors facing 357 windows was diplomatic theater at its most literal: you were supposed to feel small. The Treaty of Versailles was signed here in 1919 in the same room where Bismarck proclaimed the German Empire in 1871 after defeating France. The French chose it deliberately.
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