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Travel Bites 953: Versailles, Europe’s Palace of Palaces

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This ultimate royal palace is Louis XIV’s lavish explosion of baroque bling and divine monarch propaganda with its dazzling Hall of Mirrors and a vast and luxurious garden…just outside of Paris.

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