History of the Palace of Versailles edge of the garden) was converted to the small Jardin de la Reine. In the interior of the palace, the library and the "salon des jeux" in the "petit appartement du roi" and the "petit appartement de la reine", redecorated by Richard Mique for Marie-Antoinette, are among the finest examples of the style Louis XVI. On 6 October 1789, the royal family had to leave Versailles and move to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, as a result of the Women's March on Versailles. During the early years of the French Revolution, preservation of the palace was largely in the hands
Škvorec Chateau Škvorec Chateau Škvorec Chateau (; or "Schkworetz") is a chateau, formerly a minor castle, located in small market town of Škvorec, Central Bohemia, about east of Prague in the Czech Republic. The chateau, locally also known as the "Old Chateau" (), was indirectly first mentioned in historical sources in 1279, yet fully documented as late as since 1404. This Gothic castle was rebuilt during the 1520s into a Renaissance palace; but in 1639 – during the devastating Thirty Years' War – the premises were looted, burned and until 1710 laid in ruins. The chateau was restored then, this time in