Given to Marie Antoinette by Louis XVI in 1774, the Petit Trianon became her personal escape from Versailles protocol — a neoclassical retreat where she could ignore the court's exhausting ritual. Fifteen years later, the Revolutionary crowd would march from Paris to end the monarchy. The Petit Trianon is the quiet coda to that story.
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