Versailles original was a hunting cabin created by Louis XIII. When looking at a picture of Versailles the building with the gold leaf was the original cabin. After Louis XIII died his son, Louis XIV added on to Versailles, basically everything that doesn’t have gold leaf he added. Louis XIV had Greek statues and paintings put on and around the building. To impress guests he had the hall of mirrors built but no Frech mirror maker could make mirrors good enough for his satisfaction so he had Venetian mirror markers show the Franch how to make mirrors. As a welcome home gift for the Venetian mirror makers, their king sentenced them to death because mirror-making had been a Venetian secret. When Louis XIV died at the old age of 72 he passed the throne on to his great-grand child Louis XV (he outlived his son and grandson!). He did not add to Versailles. During his reign, he made it so everyone, instead of just royals, could bathe in the pond. After Louis XV passed away his son Louis XVI took the throne. His wife Marie Antoinette had a small peasant village built next to her small house so she could play peasant. At her small house, all of the servant passages were hidden so she could live a “normal life”. Because the couple didn’t produce an heir for a while an architect build a pavilion to make Louis want to have a child. Inside the pavilion is a statue of Cupid turning Hercules’ club into a bow and holding Hercules’ armor and shield.
Selfie in front of the original “hunting lodge”, Versailles