Walking through History

I still find it amazing that I'm studying World history after my trip around some of France's historical sites. It makes the history lessons come more alive!

To think, that I walked through the gates of the Chateau de Versailles, the very same gates that the French citizens marched through during the French Revolution..

 










I was in the palace...walking the same corridors walked by King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette! In fact, here's the very room she slept in...and the door she used to escape the raging mob.

That's actual silk on the bed and alcove . Oh la la! :D

Walked in the gardens they strolled in...these ducks and swan may even be descendants of the birds in King Louis XVI's day!

Twirled in the Hall of Mirrors, which must have hosted beautiful balls in its hey-day. (A Cinderella story perhaps? ;) )

Don't we make lovely princesses?



And I still can't believe they used all that to bury Napoleon Bonaparte. I mean, wasn't he a very short man?

Here us, on a final stroll along L'Allee Royale 

* All photos were taken by Yours truly! Except the ones I'm in, of course :)