Setting the benchmark for Italianate garden conservatory design, the elegantly long and low palace of pink marble and porphyry features geometrically ordered rows of columns and windows, topped by a balustrade roof. Since the original furnishings were plundered during the Revolution, the palace is furnished in the Empire style as Napoleon Bonaparte lived here for a time.xa0
Travelers may discover Grand Trianon on a tour that encompansses the many attractions of the magnificent palace and gardens of Versailles, including entry to Marie-Antoinette’s Petit Trianon and the Queen’s Hamlet, where she created an idealized French village to serve as her rustic escape from court life.