Palace of Versailles: Discover Pomp, Splendour – and 5 Secrets

Here are 5 secrets hidden within France's famous Versailles palace! At the beginning of the 17th century, the palace was just a small hunting lodge in the forest. But then came Louis XIV. The so-called Sun King transformed it into a fairytale palace.
Today, it attracts millions of visitors. We show you 5 things that you might not know yet about the Palace of Versailles.

00:00 Intro
00:24 Practical information for your visit
01:10 Secret #1 – a secret door
02:22 Secret #2 – hygiene at Versailles Palace
03:34 Secret #3 – a hidden office for secret diplomacy
04:16 Secret #4 – a private library
05:00 Secret #5 – a hidden room for chemical experiments

CREDITS:
Report: Christine Lebert))
Camera: Basile Bonne
Editing: Klaus Hellmig
Supervising editor: Elisabeth Yorck
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[DWTravel]

Unfortunately, we made a mistake when recording the voice over. At secret number 5, timecode 5:05, it should be Louis XVI, not Louis XV. Apologies!

[Samialessi]

Beautiful report! Quelles belles images!

[c_cma]

You are welcome to Romania. Hello from Bucharest, Romania - a huge underrated city in Europe:)

[antoniousai]

There's a mistake in the video. They say "Louis XV had another passion, chemistry" and proceed to show a 1780 laboratory, but at that time the ruling monarch was his grandson Louis XVI, who was crowned in 1774

[xcel]

Secrets and chemistry? We had that in school and it wasn't a secret .

[richardstall]

Awesome 👍 glad it wasn't destroyed by war or anything else I'm glad people get to enjoy that era of life. Toilet 🚽 couldn't imagine 💩 poopies in that type of toilet butt never know until you have to go 😂

[garryferrington]

Very advanced to have an early English flush toilet.

[bill-gm]

rt: Marie Antoinette wa me great grand ma..she passes and i wrote a song maybe you heard of it of the silver beetles

[jiheelee]

cette fois
Je veux ouvrir Versailles, France
avec invitation
avec changeur de maison
à l'origine des gens nobles
Réduire les groupes terroristes

préparation
Fais-le

[finthefilmkid.youtube]

its beautiful, but for what. for the masses to enjoy without knowing what they are truly looking at?. for friends to sit and chat about meaningless events from their day to day at the gates of a world of antiquity. i know it sounds stupid to comment something like this. but a world with architecture like this, with style and grace as this. it pains me to see what has become of it all. how it's wasted away like sprinkles on a hollow cake!. how it's taken (as i see it) not as a potent and masterful work of power and wisdom, but simply as something that exists to be seen and passed through. i don't think people understand what it means to have things and places like this. they don't realize (weather out of ignorance or of un-enlightenment ) that a building like this should have a population equal to its architecture. but no matter what i say, no matter the profundity of anyone's words for that matter, no one will listen, because its simply not worth their attention and they are too busy scrolling or dancing in the street.

[RudiPurwana-]

Origin hidden el is taurus sign they all heavan creation origin god

[RR-epqy]

Really? A toilet - that’s the “secret”?