Louis-Philippe, King of the French from 1830 to 1848, transformed Versailles into a museum dedicated to the glories of France. Through his desire to reconcile the different regimes, the Citizen King succeeded in creating the first museum of the history of France. He transformed the apartments of the princes and courtiers into vast galleries, in which the ancient paintings and sculptures were brought together in evocative retrospectives.
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