Grand Trianon of the Regent Philippe d'Orléans and she was a niece of Marie Antoinette. In October 1837 Marie d'Orléans (daughter of Louis Philippe I) married Alexander of Württemberg at Trianon In 1920, the "Grand Trianon" hosted the negotiations and signing of the Treaty of Trianon, which left Hungary with less than one-third of its pre-World War I land size. To Hungarians, the word "Trianon" remains to this day the symbol of one of their worst national disasters. In 1963 Charles de Gaulle ordered a renovation of the building. A popular site for tourists visiting Versailles, it is one of the French
Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace the Tsar. Today, as part of the State Hermitage Museum, this room retains its original decoration. Notes Citations Bibliography Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace The Small Throne Room of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, also known as the Peter the Great Memorial Hall, was created for Tsar Nicholas I in 1833, by the architect Auguste de Montferrand. Following a fire in 1837, in which most of the palace was destroyed, the room was recreated exactly as it had been before by the architect Vasily Stasov. Designed in a loose Baroque style, the throne is recessed in an apse