There’s a
wonderfully place to take tea in the town
: the Hotel Palais Trianon Palace, were the final negociations for the
Treaty of Versailles took place in 1919. Located near the park entrance
at the end of Boulevard de la Reine, it offers trayfuls of
mouth-watering patisseries for about 15 euros. The style of the hotel
is very much that of the town in general. The dominant population is
aristocratic, with those holding pre-revolutionary titles disdainful of
those dating merely from the time of Napoleon. On Bastille Day, both
parties go about wearing black ribbons and ties in mourning for the
guillotined monarchy.