Article: Very Versailles.(PARTIES: VERSAILLES BALL)(Brief Article)

WATER VIEW

Le Grand Bal du Bosquet ("The Grove Ball") was held at the palace of Versailles to unveil the restoration of its garden's Grove of the Three Fountains, designed by Le Notre for Louis XIV in 1677.

JET SET

Six hundred international guests gathered on a summer's eve to see water shoot skyward from the trio of long-abandoned fountains for the first time in more than two centuries.

WAVES OF APPRECIATION

The gala was the final fundraiser for the five-year, $4 million project, which was sponsored by the American Friends of Versailles. It capped a celebratory week of parties at some of Paris's grandest addresses, ...

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