Everywhere you walk at Versailles your gaze

lingers over its beauties, your thoughts skim over its

centuries of history, through the turmoil of the Revolution

to the present day. Yet amid so much magnificence

we want always to see the unseen, to find a hidden

staircase, to open a secret door to a forgotten room.

Yves Carlier takes us on a tour of Versailles in the space

of one exhilarating day, recounting the memorable

events of life at the château during the different eras in

which it flourished. This is a tour to which everyone

is invited: kings and courtiers, historic events and epic

festivities, science and the sacred, and finally all the artists

and craftsmen who created Versailles, and whose work

has been preserved down the centuries.