Versailles

Versailles, a handsome city of France, capital of the department of Seine-et-Oise, 11 m. by rail SW. of Paris, of which it is virtually a suburb, and was during the monarchy, from Louis XIV.'s time, the seat of the French court; has a magnificent palace, with a gallery embracing a large collection of pictures; was occupied by the Germans during the siege of Paris, and in one of its halls the Prussian king was proclaimed emperor of Germany as William I.

Population (circa 1900) given as 51,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Verlaine, Paul
Vermont
Verne, Jules
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Verona
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Vespasian, Titus Flavius Vespasianus
Vespucci, Amerigo
Vesta
Vestal Virgins
Vesuvius
Veturia
Via Dolorosa
Viaticum
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