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22 unusual facts about Versailles


Bee Bee Bee

As a result, during the 1971-72 winter Bee Bee Bee became the property of William S. Farish III who late in the decade became the owner of Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Kentucky.

Bob and John

Bob and John was retired from racing in August 2007 to stand at Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Kentucky.

Dixieland Band

Sharp died in 2002, and Dixieland Band stood at the Farish family's Lane's End Farm in Versailles.

Drosselmeyer

The colt was purchased at the 2008 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $600,000 by WinStar Farm LLC of Versailles, Kentucky, who entrusted his race conditioning to Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott.

Escena

She remains in service at Allen Paulson's Brookside Farm (now Diamond A Farm) near Versailles, Kentucky, where she was born.

Fit to Fight

Retired from racing, in 1985 Fit to Fight became one of the original stallions to stand at stud at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

Hatoof

Hatoof (born January 26, 1989 in Versailles, Kentucky) is a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed internationally out of a base in Chantilly, France under trainer Criquette Head for owner Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Life's Magic

Life's Magic died at age twenty-six on August 21, 2007, at Trackside Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

Lookin At Lucky

Lookin At Lucky was retired to Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky shortly after his run in the Breeders Cup.

Lord Avie

Due to advancing age and declining fertility, Lord Avie was pensioned after the 2002 breeding season at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Kentucky, where he had stood since 1989.

Midway Road

After eight months of rehabilitation Midway Road was not progressing to the satisfaction of his trainer and was retired and stood at owner-breeder William S. Farish's Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

Peaks and Valleys

Bred by Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud in Versailles, Kentucky, he was the son of Carter Handicap winner Mt. Livermore, a son of the very important Champion sire, Blushing Groom.

Pleasantly Perfect

Retired from racing at the end of the 2004 season, Pleasantly Perfect entered stud in 2005 at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

Saint Liam

Saint Liam was standing at stud at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky when, in a freak accident in August 2006 he slipped and fell, suffering an untreatable left tibial fracture.

Stay Thirsty

He was retired after his four-year-old season and now stands at Ashford Stud, the American arm of the Irish breeding giant Coolmore near Versailles, Kentucky.

Stephen S. Harding

He then opened a law office in Richmond, Indiana which remained open for six months when he opened one in Versailles, Indiana.

Summer Bird

Summer Bird was retired to stud in 2011 and initially stood at Pauls Mill in Versailles, Kentucky, for a fee of $15,000.

Take Charge Indy

He underwent surgery at Woodford Equine Hospital in Versailles, Kentucky and was forced to miss most of the season's remaining major races.

The Wicked North

The Wicked North stood as a stallion at the True North farm at Versailles, Kentucky until 2008 when he was retired after suffering from equine protozoal myeloencephalitis.

Versailles, Illinois

Bill Roy, skeet shooting Olympian and world champion; born in Versailles

War Pass

On November 16, 2007, it was announced that upon retirement the horse will stand at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

William Burton Roy

William Burton "Bill" Roy (born on 4 December 1958 in Versailles, Illinois) is a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force and former U.S. Olympian in skeet shooting.


Alexander Edward

He was then to travel to Paris and the low countries, visiting Versailles, Marly and St Cloud.

Alexandre Bontemps

Alexandre succeeded him on his death in 1659, dying in office in 1701, by which time he was a count and marquis, holding several key offices controlling both the palaces and towns of Versailles and Marly, the Swiss Guard who guarded the King and his palaces, and the household of the Dauphin.

Antoine Marc Gaudin

He was educated in Haifa, Versailles, and Toulon, then attended universities in Paris and Aix-en-Provence from which he received his bachelor degrees in 1916 and 1917, respectively.

Bernard de Bury

His works continued to be staged during the festivities given in Versailles, Sceaux, and Fontainebleau for more than thirty-five years.

Calumet, Lexington

Its boundaries are Viley Road to the west, Versailles Road to the south, New Circle Road to the north, and Wolf Run Creek to the east.

Charles d'Abancour

Abancourt and his fellow-prisoners were murdered in cold blood in massacres on 9 September 1792 at Versailles, and Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime.

Charles Jacque

Jacque also provided the illustrations for numerous books, in particular the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith; The Indian Cottage, a novella published with Paul et Virginie; Picturesque Greece by Christopher Wordsworth; the Works of Shakespeare; and Ancient and Modern Versailles by Alexandre de Laborde.

Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart

Antoine Claude Nicolas Valdec de Lessart (25 January 1741, Château de Mongenan, Portets, near Bordeaux – 9 September 1792, Versailles ) was a French politician.

Colt State Park

The marble gates of the main entrance, modeled after the approach to the Petit Trianon at Versailles and unveiled in 1913, bear an inscription: "Colt Farm, Private Property, Public Welcome." A pair of life size bull statues, named Conrad and Pomeroy, guard the gate to the park.

Elaine Thornburgh

As President of Humanities West, she has presented programs on 18th-century Venice, Rembrandt's Amsterdam, Thomas Jefferson, Mozart, Handel's London, and Versailles.

Émile Lambinet

A student of Horace Vernet then Corot, he spent most of his life in Yvelines, at first in his birthplace of Versailles, then at Bougival from 1860.

Fusaichi Pegasus

For several years, Fusaichi Pegasus served as a "shuttle stallion" standing at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season and at Coolmore Australia near Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, but since the 2010 breeding season has stood exclusively in Kentucky.

Gardens of Versailles

With the arrival of Pierre de Nolhac as director of the museum in 1892, a new era of historical research began at Versailles.

Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy

Originally from Cambrai, they moved to Paris and were employed by King Louis XIV, particularly for the decoration of the palace and gardens at Versailles.

George Grieve

On Robespierre's fall Grieve was arrested at Amiens, and was taken to Versailles, where twenty-two depositions were taken against him, but the prosecution was dropped.

Hildburghausen Castle

It was completed by Duke Ernest Frederick I, who wanted to imitate the court at Versailles.

Irreconcilables

The Republican Party controlled the United States Senate after the election of 1918, but the Senators were divided into multiple positions on the Versailles question.

Jacques Boyceau

It was designed for the patron rather than for the gardener, but it had an influence on the designs of André Le Nôtre, who transformed the manner of Boyceau and of the Mollet dynasty of royal gardeners—Claude Mollet and André Mollet—to create the culminating French Baroque gardens, exemplified at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles.

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume

The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon (1852), Faucheur (1855), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres.

Jean-Jacques Karpff

Jean-Jacques Casimir Karpff (Colmar, 12 February 1770 - Versailles, 24 March 1829) was a French painter, designer and minaturist.

Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil

Following the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution, Vaudreuil, in the company of his old royal comrade, the comte d'Artois, left Versailles on horseback for the Austrian Netherlands.

Kosa Pan

The mission landed at the French port of Brest before continuing its journey to Versailles, constantly surrounded by crowds of curious onlookers.

Léon Teisserenc de Bort

After his resignation from the Bureau in 1896, he established a private meteorological observatory in Trappes near Versailles.

Louis de Noailles

Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles (21 April 1713, Versailles – 22 August 1793, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French peer and Marshal of France.

Marc Arcis

In Paris, he took part in the interior decoration of the église de la Sorbonne and produced works for Versailles.

Marquetry

The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV.

Michel Winock

He started his career in secondary school teaching at the lycée in Montpellier, then at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.

Paris France Temple

However, French newspapers reported the church's plans to build the temple at Le Chesnay, near Versailles, which prompted an announcement on July 15, 2011, three months prior to the October 2011 conference.

Reparation

World War I reparations, made from Germany due to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Residence organ

Several such purpose-built residence organs survive from centuries past, including Claudio Merulo's organ in the Conservatory of Music in Parma, and the residence organ of Marie Antoinette that is preserved at Versailles.

Ridicule

Horrified by the sickness and death caused by the mosquitoes that infest the swamps, he hopes to drain them; he goes to Versailles in the hope of obtaining the backing of King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier).

Robbie Davis

Parents of six children, their daughter Jacqueline was one of eleven students in the inaugural class at the North American Racing Academy in Versailles, Kentucky, founded as a jockey training program through the auspices of the Kentucky Community Technical College System.

Sibyl Buck

Born in Versailles, France, Buck started her modeling career in 1992 and has worked for Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, and many other fashion houses.

Swiss cottage, Cahir

Armagh (National Trust); and the Petit hameau de la Reine at Versailles.

Théophile Bra

His marble and plaster sculptures are numerous, in Douai's Musée de la Chartreuse, Paris churches and the museums at Versailles, Lille and Valenciennes, many of them being commissions under the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy.

Tov

Treaty of Versailles (1757), expansion of 1756 Versailles treaty to Saxony, Sweden and Russia; see Diplomatic Revolution

Tramway de Versailles

During the 1950s the network was formed only of lines A, B, C and E. It was seriously amputated at the dawn of World War II and closed on 3 March 1957 during a glorious celebration with 200 000 inhabitants, the mayor of Versailles, Maurice Chevalier and the baptism of the replacing buses.

The first modernisation was the opening of a steam tram between Versailles and Saint-Cyr-l'École on 20 November 1889.

Versailles Group

In December 1999, trading in Versailles shares was suspended and in early 2000, the company was placed in administrative receivership.

Will Dyson

Published in the British Daily Herald on 13 May 1919, it showed David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando and Georges Clemenceau (the Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and France respectively), together with Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, emerging after a meeting at Versailles to discuss the Peace Treaty.

Winnipeg General Strike

The Canadian prime minister attended the conference at Versailles and was concerned solely for his government, due to the Russian revolution that began more than a year before the settlement and concern that it would potentially spread to North America.