---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 3
published: 1919-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Palace of Versailles,” *Improvement Era* 22, no. 3 (January 1919): 206."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2203unse
start_page: 206
end_page: 206
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  publication_year: 1919
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Palace of Versailles

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©  Underwood  &  Underwood,  New  York

THE  PALACE  OF  VERSAILLES

The  palace  of  Versailles  is  the  seat  of  the  Inter-allied  Conference,

where  the  representatives  of  the  Entente  powers  meet,  and  where  the

German,  Turkish  and  other  armistice  terms  were  settled.  It  is  the

headquarters  of  the  Supreme  War  Council;  here  will  be  signed  the

decisions  of  peace — the  doom  of  autocracy — following  the  greatest  war

the  world  has  ever  known.

At  the  first  formal  meeting  of  the  Entente  powers,  October  30,  the

representatives  left  the  palace  visibly  content  with  what  they  had  accom-

plished.   The  next  day  Turkey  signed  the  armistice  terms.

The  Palace  is  one  of  the  most  magnificent  structures  in  the  world,

and  it  is  said  that  Louis  XIV  spent  over  $100,000,000  on  it,  and  the  park

adjoining.  Within  its  portals  are  the  apartments  of  its  builder,  with

the  same  furnishings  used  by  him:  the  room  in  which  Louis  XV  died;

the  chambers  of  Marie  Antoinette  and  the  museum  of  art  and  history

for  which  it  is  noted.

The  famous  meeting  of  the  States-Generals,  with  which  the  French

revolution  really  began,  was  held  here,  and  seven  years  earlier  was  the

scene  of  the  signing  of  the  preliminary  agreement  at  the  close  of  the

war  between  England  and  the  American  colonies.