17 Dec
Other Buildings At Versailles
Other Buildings On The Palace Grounds
As Versailles was the seat of government,
all the nobles spend time there.
Around the palace,
a town sprung up to support the inhabitants.
It is said that when the King withdrew from Versailles
in October 6, 1789,
the population fell from 80,000 to less than 25,000.
To put that in perspective,
the population of Versailles (the town) in 2005 was only 86,400,
