Le Grand Louvre: Louis XIV went even further, renovating the Petite Galerie, doubling its size, unifying the Tuileries, completing the quadrilateral cour du Louvre, building a monumental facade towards the city and an incredible interior decoration, of which the King Chamber, the regent apartments and the Apollon Galerie remain. Those places hosted the first feasts, later held at Versailles.

But Versailles, the living folie though Colbert was defending the great plan, was soon to supplant the Louvre. Leaving the Tuileries park, that Le Nôtre had just transformed into a countryside illusion, the King was leaving his Paris apartments, where he felt surrounded by the crowd, for Versailles, where the absolute monarch could feel at ease.