What Was It Like to Visit Versailles in Its Heyday? The Met’s Lavish New Exhibit Shows Us

Take a look inside “Visitors to Versailles (1682–1789)” before it opens to the public on Monday.”Visitors to Versailles (1682–1789)” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Even if you’ve neither studied nor visited Versailles, the estate that was the seat of political power in France from 1682-1789, you’re…