For other uses, see Versailles (disambiguation) The Palace of Versailles ( or ), or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île de France region of France.

They lived in the palace of Versailles which is ginormous.

The Marquis de Maynes is absent from the assembly... having been ordered by Her Majesty the Queen... to report upon the waterworks at Versailles.

And if you're a peasant, you work on their fields, do all the work, you send them some of your crops and they pay no taxes.

Moreover, in the absence of an impartial judge, a winner can always impose his truth upon the vanquished, as happened with the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.

By contrast, as Henry Kissinger has argued, the victors in World War I could neither deter a defeated Germany nor provide it with incentives to accept the Versailles Treaty.

The deal between Greece and its creditors, for example, has been compared to the Treaty of Versailles, with the Greeks forced to accept ruinous terms of surrender. But economic depression, however difficult, is not war, and the position of today s Greece cannot compare to that of the defeated Germans in 1918.

To answer that question, we should consider not just the 1815 Treaty of Vienna, but also the 1648 Peace of Westphalia and the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, each of which in its own way brought to an end a bloody chapter in European history.

By contrast, as Henry Kissinger has argued, the victors in World War I could neither deter a defeated Germany nor provide it with incentives to accept the Versailles Treaty. Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.