This was soon changed, however, by the king, who decided to set aside all the rooms around the Marble Courtyard for his new apartments. The layout of the first floor of the Palace was perfectly symmetrical, with the north belonging to the king and the south to the queen. Queen Maria Theresa, Louis XIV’s wife, was the first person to live in these apartments, but she died not long after moving in, in 1683. The Queen’s Apartments, which overlook the Midi Parterre, are a series of rooms whose layout is identical to that of the King’s State Apartments to the north.
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