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Versailles
[ ver-sahy, ver-or, French ver-sah-yuh ]
noun
- a city in and the capital of Yvelines, in N France, about 12 miles (19 km) SW of Paris: palace of the French kings; peace treaty between the Allies and Germany 1919.
Versailles
/ -藞se瑟lz; v蓻蓹藞sa瑟; v蓻rs蓱j /
noun
- a city in N central France, near Paris: site of an elaborate royal residence built for Louis XIV; seat of the French kings (1682鈥1789). Pop: 85聽726 (1999)
- Treaty of Versailles
- the treaty of 1919 imposed upon Germany by the Allies (except for the US and the Soviet Union): the most important of the five peace treaties that concluded World War I
- another name for (the Treaty of) Paris of 1783 See Paris 1
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The Treaty of Versailles , signed in 1919, officially ended World War I .
It is the site of the Palace of Versailles , which was built by King Louis xiv in the seventeenth century and was the royal residence for over one hundred years.
The French Revolution began in Versailles, when mobs stormed the palace.
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It's become an ersatz Versailles with phony gilt tchotkes jammed in every corner and gaudy picture frames crowded together on the walls:
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We鈥檙e somewhere in Illinois but he looks like he just escaped an asylum in Versailles.
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The Reich鈥檚 distress originated in Germany鈥檚 surrender in World War I and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
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鈥淭he Childhood of a Leader鈥 was about the interwar period between the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and the Second World War.
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In 2019, an appeals court in Versailles rejected her complaints and ruled in favour of her husband.
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