Church of Notre-Dame, Versailles of the Prussian army who fell during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Church of Notre-Dame, Versailles The Church of Notre-Dame, Versailles () is a Roman Catholic parish church in Versailles, Yvelines, France, in the Rue de la Paroisse. The church was built at the command of Louis XIV by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the Neoclassical architectural style and was consecrated on 30 October 1686. The parish of Notre-Dame included the Palace of Versailles and thus registered the baptisms, marriages and burials of the French royal family. In 1791 it was declared a cathedral but converted to a Temple of Reason in
Palace of Versailles the Queen and her friends to amuse themselves by playing peasants, and included a farmhouse with a dairy, a mill, a boudoir, a pigeon loft, a tower in the form of a lighthouse from which one could fish in the pond, a belvedere, a cascade and grotto, and a luxuriously furnished cottage with a billiard room for the Queen. The palace still serves political functions. Heads of state are regaled in the Hall of Mirrors; the bicameral French Parliament—consisting of the Senate ("Sénat") and the National Assembly ("Assemblée nationale")—meet in joint session (a congress of the French Parliament) in Versailles