📍Airelles Chateau de Versailles,Le Grand Controle
📍 Palace of Versailles, France
🕠Time: every Saturday, with extra dates on special holidays
🎫 To buy tickets: Versailles official website

Versailles' annual masquerade is finally here this year!

Grand Masked Ball is a grand "masked ball" held in the Palace of Versailles once a year in June, in this rare feast, gorgeous 18th century costumes, exquisite headdresses and masks, the lively scene of royal parties.

If you just want to feel the Versailles Palace of Versailles, but do not want to go to too many restaurants, it is highly recommended to go directly to the court ball at night, and it is not cost-effective to go all the way during the day, because the court ball can also enter the Hall of mirrors at night and fewer people than during the day, more comfortable. And before and after entering the Hall of mirrors will be interspersed through the palace interior corridor, you can also slowly walk to visit. (I just feel that a lot of the original furniture has been removed and repaired, and the overall home decoration is not Versailles at all, compared with the Louvre Napoleon III suite!)

Secondly, in the mural hall, tourists can not enter the daily just separate, can only shoot in the periphery, but the evening dance time is allowed to go in, and you can also watch actors perform and sing.

It is recommended to buy 53€set of party tickets, that is, the dance ➕ garden can enter, wait until sunset to visit the garden is not sun-bathed and there are fountain lights, I am lucky just in France's National Day in Versailles Palace and fireworks show to see, heard that as long as the summer court ball will have fireworks show.



Take me back to an 18th century royal party. It really is like a scene out of a movie. Everyone dresses up and makes up.


The history of masquerades at Versailles dates back to 1745, when the son of King Louis XV of France married a Spanish princess. This dress ball also marks the beginning of Louis XV's love affair with Madame de Pombadour. A masquerade will once again grace the exquisite royal palace......

Louis XV, who loves to dance, is an advanced Cosplay player! The most impressive was during the Dauphin's wedding at the Palace of Versailles in February 1745...... At the ball, the king did not show his true face, but dressed up as a "tree"!! He and seven others dressed up as yews that night.

All the guests were talking about the king's appearance. As with most rooms in the Grand Suite, there are steps in the alcoves of the lobby Windows to give guests a better view of the dance. In addition to the chandeliers that hang in the main hall only on special occasions, there are also candlesticks on the round table. In addition, they also cleverly added some supplementary light sources in the hall to ensure that all areas are well lit.

With the rise of salon culture, the literary circle is not only around the royal family. The genteel and classy crowd was not limited to the aristocracy, from the wealthy middle class to the aspiring provincial youth, who collided in the dazzling salons of Paris, and their clothes and lifestyles were subsequently copied by the public. At the same time, all kinds of luxury goods that embody technological content and aesthetic accomplishment are also forming a trend from top to bottom......

Think about it, the gilded candlesticks and crystal chandeliers, with soft light, accompanied by beautiful music, the hands of the princes and nobles dressed up to dance gently touching, the faint fragrance left when passing by, the eyes of the crowd looking for each other, this is the unique charm of the ball!

During the photo shoot, we asked a lot of people to find out that a lot of people's clothes are made by themselves, and most of the couple costumes are matched in sets, with the same colors, materials, accessories, and a lot of ingenuity!

For example, we loved the woman's green dress, which she proudly told us her husband had made for her. That's really amazing! Beautiful and unique!