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Marie Antoinette’s Salon Doré, one of the four main rooms of her “Petits Appartements” in Versailles. These small rooms with their concealed doors escaped the surveillance of spies and favoured love affairs and intrigues. To step through the looking-glass, just as Marie Antoinette used to do, is an extraordinary experience. The four main rooms, the Méridienne, the two libraries, the Salon Doré, their boudoirs and their bathrooms provide a perfect image of eighteenth-century France as we imagine it today (extract from The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer & François Halard)

Richard Mique the premier architecte to Louis XVI and a favourite of the queen’s was given the task of transforming these rooms for her use while the Rousseau brothers, Jules Antoine and Jean Siméon, did the decorative work on the panelling.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good