Versailles II: Testament of the King Versailles II: Testament of the King Versailles II: Testament of the King is a video game released in 2001. It was developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment and co-published by Cryo and Réunion des Musées Nationaux for Windows-based PCs and the Sony PlayStation 2. It is the sequel to the 1997 game "Versailles 1685". The game is set in 1700, 15 years after the previous game, at the time of the death of King Charles II. The player assumes the role of Charles-Louis de Farevolles, who turns up at the Court of Louis XIV, with neither influence at Court nor money.
History of the Palace of Versailles fate of Versailles was sealed: on 21 June 1791, Louis XVI was arrested at Varennes after which the "Assemblée nationale constituante" accordingly declared that all possessions of the royal family had been abandoned. To safeguard the palace, the "Assemblée nationale constituante" ordered the palace of Versailles to be sealed. On 20 October 1792 a letter was read before the National Convention in which Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, interior minister, proposed that the furnishings of the palace and those of the residences in Versailles that had been abandoned be sold and that the palace be either sold or rented. The