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The gardens of the Palace of Versailles were, in essence, an exorbitant vanity project. Over four decades, Louis XIV commissioned the era’s finest artists to create what remains the world’s largest ...

You can now talk to ornate, centuries-old statues in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, but be warned — they only want to talk about themselves. The palace, which functions as a museum, ...

In December 2022, a small crowd gathered around the Fountain of Apollo in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles to watch a crane lift the Greek god and his four-horse chariot out of the water. What ...

With four months to go before the Olympic Games, the Fountain of Apollo in the Chateau de Versailles -- a gilded lead statue-fountain inspired by the legend of the sun god -- is back in use after two ...

The Palace of Versailles launched a new partnership with OpenAI to get its statues to speak. The informative chatbot was dry and lacked effective conversational skills. But it's a better solution than ...