Very fitting, the sign on the building translates to all the glories of France. With all that gold, this represented the pinnacle of abundance and excess while the commoner was starving. In current dollars, it is estimated that Louis XIV spent at least 2 billion dollars to build Versailles, and those are assumed to be an underestimate at that.

Down a hall to the main apartments of the palace. The king and queen lived in a small part of the palace while the rest of the palace was handed out or rented out to other courtiers and nobility trying to climb or buy their way to the top. It was said that Versailles had a special air about it seeing that only nine toilets were in use in the palace right before the French Revolution and all of those belonged to the royal family. The rest of the palace lived with the smell of chamber pots sticking to their clothes. Chamber pots were constantly emptied out of the nearest window although this was strictly banned.

The view the royal family would have had during mass. This is the fifth and final chapel built at Versailles and one of the grandest interiors too. Built by Louis XIV, this chapel is where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were married.

Royalty was seated above the commoners. If you wanted to see the Ancien Regime, you would have to look up to them like you were looking up at God.

One of the most famous rooms in the world, the Hall of Mirrors is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles. Louis XIV began construction in 1678 with a design that included 17 mirror-arched windows that reflect off of 17 arcaded windows overlooking the gardens.

Each of the 17 arches contains 21 mirrors which total 357 mirrors used in all to decorate the hall. The rest of the decor along the side walls include marble pilasters and gilded bronze capitals engraved with symbols of France.

As a symbol of France, Louis XIV had all the materials used to build and decorate Versaille come from France. Even though Venice was the glass and mirror capital of the 17th century, the mirrors for this hall were still manufactured in France. Colbert, the palace planner, convinced mirror makers from Venice to move to Versailles and build the Hall of Mirrors. Unfortunately, these artisans were not welcomed back home. The Venetian government ordered their assassination in order to keep proprietary secrets within the Venetian Republic.

Looking down the side of the 17 arcaded windows.

Tyler has had enough of the Palace of Versaille. He's not that impressed with the Sun King and all his gold.

Louis XIV's sheets were even sewn with gold thread and gold woven in the fabric. I bet his underwear was even gold.