Hall of Mirrors
Hall of Mirrors one of the rooms (in French, the Galerie des Glaces) in the State Apartments of the palace of Versailles, constructed at the end of the 17th century with 17 mirrors opposite 17 windows, and lit by glass chandeliers; it was in the Hall of Mirrors that the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919.
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