A Day at Versailles
“…though this “biography” of the building takes a day-in-the-life look at life within it, Carlier also notes how drastically those days differed as the palace’s purpose changed from 1682 to the present. In addition, the book examines how these many “lives” of Versailles have been immortalized…photographer Francis Hammond clearly knows we like to gasp at grandeur, but he also cannily catches the more subtle details. The result is a tour of the palace that takes the reader not merely through its spaces, but also its times.” -Metrosource