Private Versailles Experience

Your experience will begin with a private pickup from your Parisian hotel in a premium, climate-controlled vehicle.

Next, within the King’s State Apartments, we analyze the King’s rising ceremony, where the simple act of holding the monarch’s shirt sleeve was a pinnacle of political achievement. We will learn about the grueling etiquette that transformed the nobility into captive spectators under Louis XIV’s theatrical performances of daily life.

Afterwards, in the magnificent Hall of Mirrors, we uncover the state-sponsored scheme that stole the secret of the Venetian glass masters. Here, amidst the effervescence of chandeliers and thousands of candles, we reconstruct the drama and tantalizing gossip of a court where one’s reputation was hung by a thread.

Lastly, we follow in the footsteps of the Sun King and enjoy a stroll through the vast gardens just like he would have. We explore the hidden groves and the Grand Canal, where we reimagine the less-than-royal smells and the perfumes used to mask the olfactory realities of a palace without plumbing. What clandestine events unfolded there under the foliage and the shade, away from the prying eyes of the King ?