Dior To Fund Versailles Makeover
The fashion house Dior is to sponsor the restoration of the Queen’s House in Versailles. The house was Marie Antoinette’s rustic hideaway, where Louis XVI’s queen played out a fantasy life as a simple milkmaid until the revolution of 1789 imposed a sterner reality and the house was abandoned. The hamlet, built between 1783 and 1787, was inspired by the landscapes of the painter Hubert Robert. It was designed by the architect Richard Mique, who was guillotined for a failed attempt to save the queen’s life.
