The Apollo Gallery (Galerie d’Apollon) as the most dazzling hall of the Louvre Museum, was one of the inspirations of a model for the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. After a catastrophic fire in the fateful year of 1661, architect Louis Le Vau was assigned responsibility for reconstructing the gallery. The extremely splendid ceiling decorated by artist Charles Le Brun,...

We arrived at Château de Fontainebleau in early summer, when the Imperial Theatre had just been reopenned. Built in 1850s, this theatre is considered to be the last example of court theatre in France. It took 12 years and 10 million euros in total to complete the entire renovation project. Part of the theatre was accessible since 2014, but it would not regain its glory until 2019, when the w...