My 2001 Summer Trip to Europe

We also visited the palace of Versailles, just outside Paris.

Our favorite part of the palace was actually part of the gardens. This is Marie Antoinette's farm fantasy, Le Hameau. She had a little peasant village built for when she just couldn't take palace life. She retreated to these Disneyworld-like thatched houses, where her servants kept her perfumed sheep ready. She wanted to play at being a farm girl, but she didn't want to get dirty!