A breathtaking view of the palace and the garden. – Pictures by CK LimVERSAILLES, June 19 — Marie Antoinette, Austrian princess and the wife of King Louis XVI, was legendary for her beauty, her infamous solution to the shortage of bread faced by peasants (“Let them eat cake!” she was claimed to have advised), and her excesses in Versailles (till she lost her head during the French Revolution).
As the Queen of France from 1755 till 1793, the scene of her decadent life… (View original article)