Image: Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette
Live as a courtier! The Palace of Versailles is about to become a 5-star luxury hotel.
The original Hotel du Grand Controle was built in the 1680's to house King Louis XIV's treasurer. It was evacuated during the French Revolution and fell into disrepair.
The now dilapidated mansion will be restored by Belgium hotelerie Ivy International, to become the Hotel de l'Orangerie. The project will be complete in January 2012 and feature 23 luxurious rooms where guests can live as courtiers did some 300 years before.
I can see it now: modern-day guest/courtiers sipping champagne, nibbling macrons, and strolling the gardens of Versailles en vogue with iphones and Blackberries in anticipation of the night's masquerade ball.
Oh la la!
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