The Chapel was the last major component of the Château to be completed.
Louis XIV had been planning a grand new chapel in the late 1680s when the War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697), also known as the Nine Years’ War, broke out. The plans for the Chapel were then shelved.
The Chapel of the Château de Versailles as seen from a street in the town.
When the planning resumed after the end of the war, the King had changed his mind about a crucial point of the design: instead of marble, the white stone known as banc royal would be used for the interior.
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