There's "the other side of the tracks," and "the haves and have nots," we're also "keeping up with the Joneses," and intrigued with "how the other half lives," and then, there's The Louvre and Versailles. Both are palacial masterpieces... oh, the French, so fabulously opulent and decadent they are...
So here's your French History 101: King Louis XIV decides he doesn't care to live at the Palais du Louvre and in a controversial act, moves to Versailles. He really liked his father's hunting lodge in Versailles so he begins construction of a royal palace to rival the Louvre.
King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antionette were the last ones to live at Versailles. Now its a historical museum.
A look at the LOUVRE: