Buildings: L'Hameau de la ReineLocation: Adjacent to Chateau de Versailles
Dates: 1783 - 1787
Way back in the day of Louis XVI, supposedly the cool thing for really rich people to do was to pretend to be not rich... but in an expensive way. Directly adjacent to the Palace of Versailles and it's "garden" (if you can call about 250 acres of land a "garden"), the Hameau was created for their Queen, Marie Antoinette. It was a large area of land with little buildings constructed (supposedly at a Disneyland-esque 3/4 actual size... so it seemed perfect to me) so that the Queen and her ladies could escape the rigors of palace life and play milkmaid, pretending they were peasants living a peasant life... but without the sweat and dirt. Although, didn't they only shower once a month back then?
Cute place... I'd want this as a playground too. With a train.
(and yes, I don't normally do color, but since it was a "garden tour", we were forced to... we were graded on it)
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