« Versailles », by Alexandre maral... the Construction Site

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Visiting France in 1677, the English philosopher John Locke marvelled at the fact that the Sun King had managed to do Versailles: "Nature has done nothing for this country, and the profit that was drawn, with money and work, from such a poorly favoured place, is a miracle of art." Many contemporaries, like Charles Perrault, were to sextasier on the splendour of an estate that "was created and drawn from nothingness"; but many also amazed to see …