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 *
- over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.†
p. 37.7
Definition:
a wealthy suburb of Paris; or the palace built there by Louis XIV when Versailles was the capital city