Le Petit Trianon




Le Petit Trianon is a historical building within the Versailles palace grounds in France. The palace was commissioned by Louis XV and designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel between 1762 and 1768. Considered a perfection of architecture, the villa was a neoclassical architecture, which was characterized by the Corinthian order, particularly as exhibited in its window frames, balustrades among other features of the French classical tradition. The chateau is essentially a structure with a square floor plane, four Corinthian-detailed facades, and a flat roof. Gabriel also integrated sun-bleached limestone bricks into the edifice, figuratively and literally indicating a transition from the Rocco style to the neoclassical architecture.  As evident from the chateau, a Corinthian building was made of one detached pillar and another semi-detached support, positioned directly opposite the French garden. The façade adjacent to the former botanical garden was left bare. The entire palace was evidently an example of a subtle utilization and compensation of the inclined location (Ball 44).
Interestingly, the chateau was constructed in a period of six years and dedicated to Madame de Pompadour, who unfortunately died four years before it was completed. In 1774, Louis XV was succeeded by Louis XVI who presented the palace to his young Queen Marie Antoinette. The purpose of Petit Trianon was to escape from the formal living, where the Queen and her children played a variety of childhood games. Today, the building is a legacy of the classical structure, mainly through its impeccable beauty, design, and decorations, which is envied by many European generations and visitors who visit the museum from every corner of the world. Among other things, tourists enjoy the chateau’s time period furnishings, paintings, and the beautiful flower gardens (Trachtenberg and Hyman 410).














Works Cited
Ball, Victoria Kloss. Architecture and interior design: Europe and America from the Colonial
Era to today. Wiley, 1980.
Trachtenberg, Marvin, and Isabelle Hyman. "Architecture. From prehistory to postmodernity."
(2003).

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