Places such as the Smithsonian museums in Washington and the Palace of Versailles in Paris were the first to do this and now the National Gallery in London have stopped them being used.
The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.
After World War One concluded, the Victorious allies met at Versailles in 1919 to set the terms the peace, and the borders of the Middle East were shifted once again.
So the Montgolfiers sent up a sheep, a duck, and a rooster as the king, the queen (Marie Antoinette) , and 130,000 other people witnessed the historic flight over Versailles.
A controversial sculpture by the artist Anish Kapoor displayed in the garden of the Palace of Versailles, France has been vandalized for a second time.
In a prescient 1993 essay, the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said called the Oslo Accords " an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles" .