Both Uses of
Versailles
in
The Great Gatsby
- The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.†
p. 29..2 *
- When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene — his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle." over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.†
p. 37..7
Definition:
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(Versailles) a wealthy suburb of Paris; or the palace built there by Louis XIV when Versailles was the capital city