<P> Especially under Louis XIV, the whole senior nobility were pressured to spend large amounts of time at Versailles, as a form of political control . Louis XIV evolved a rigid routine of court life as a performance, much of which took place in front of large groups of people, at some points in the day including tourists . Building the château and maintaining the court there was phenomenally expensive, but did a good deal to establish the dominance of French style and taste in the whole of Europe, giving French luxury manufacturing advantages that long outlasted the fall of the Ancien Régime . </P> <P> Louis XIV's expansion of the building was begun around 1661, with Louis Le Vau as architect . It was not completed until about 1715, having been worked on by architects including François d'Orbay, Charles Le Brun (interiors especially), Jules Hardouin - Mansart and Robert de Cotte . André Le Nôtre began the gardens and structures in them . There were a range of satellite buildings around the grounds . While the main château building remains essentially intact, though without much of its contents, some of these other buildings have been destroyed . </P> <P> First built by Louis XIII in 1624 as a hunting lodge of brick and stone, and designed by the architect Jacques Lemercier, the edifice was enlarged into a royal palace by Louis XIV . The first phase of the expansion (c. 1661--1678) was designed and supervised by the architect Louis Le Vau . It culminated in the addition of three new wings of stone (the enveloppe), which encompassed Louis XIII's original building on the north, south, and west (the garden side). André - Charles Boulle, the most famous French cabinetmaker and the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry, was engaged in 1669 to create ouvrages de peinture, and Boulle was employed for many years at Versailles, where the mirrored walls, floors of wood mosaic, inlaid paneling and marquetry in the Cabinet du Dauphin (1682--1686) was regarded as his most remarkable work . The rooms were dismantled in the late 18th century and their unfashionable art broken up . More recently, a partial inventory of the Grand Dauphin's decorations at the Palace of Versailles has come to light at the National Archives in Paris . </P> <P> After Le Vau's death in 1670, the work was taken over and completed by his assistant François d'Orbay . Charles Le Brun designed and supervised the elaborate interior decoration, and André Le Nôtre landscaped the extensive Gardens of Versailles . Le Brun and Le Nôtre collaborated on the numerous fountains, and Le Brun supervised the design and installation of countless statues . </P>

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