Versailles

Today we went to Versailles. If you want to see some of the more typical photos, you can click here. But the above picture is a photo of the famous "Carp of Versaille" (carpe du Versailles) which have been kept since Marie Antoinette's time.

She kept them as pets, but when she was seized there in 1789 the masses tried to take them and eat them. A few of her guards who were still loyal spirited the carp away and kept them in bathtubs until the restoration of the monarchy.

The carp pictured above are the direct descendants of those fish.

More interesting than a Hall of Mirrors, I would say.