Season 29, Day 11 - "Trivia aivirT"

It's Hall week, and today's quiz is inspired by the Hall of Mirrors.

Hall of Mirrors

The Hall of Mirrors (Galerie des Glaces) is the most famous room in the Palace of Versailles, a former French royal residence. Once known as the Grande Galerie, it was completed around 1683 by architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart. It features 357 mirrors and 17 mirror-ornamented arches. The ceiling was ornately painted by Charles Le Brun, court painter to Louis XIV, with historical scenes from the Sun King’s reign. On January 18, 1871, in a ceremony led by Otto von Bismarck, the Hall of Mirrors was the site where Wilhelm I (or William I) of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor following the joint victory of the German states in the Franco-Prussian War (the Hall was picked specifically for this purpose because its ceiling paintings depict the French conquest of German territories). With this past humiliation in mind, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau chose the Hall of Mirrors as the location where the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I was signed on June 28, 1919 (exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914). The Hall of Mirrors was also the setting for the 1770 masked wedding ball for Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin (the future Louis XVI). It’s flanked on either side by the Salon of Peace and Salon of War, which were once incorporated into the state apartments of the king and queen.