Marie Antoinette’s Estate Tour

At the Petit Trianon, you will discover Marie Antoinette’s true refuge. King Louis XVI offered this elegant neoclassical palace as an antidote to the overwhelming grandeur of the Palace of Versailles. Inside, you explore intimate, light-filled rooms designed for private living rather than public display, including the refined salons where the queen received her closest circle, her private bedroom, the dining room created for informal meals, and delicately furnished spaces reflecting her taste for comfort, music, and the latest fashions of the Enlightenment.

Your visit unfolds through the Queen’s Antichamber, her private bedroom, and a series of refined personal spaces, the Cabinet, Boudoir, and Garde-robe,  revealing her daily life away from the rigid etiquette of Versailles. On the ground floor, explore rooms dedicated to discreet sociability, including the Dining Room for intimate meals, the Salon de Compagnie, and the Billiard Room, a fashionable pastime of the 18th century. Some of these rooms are not commonly open to the public, making this private tour a rare and privileged experience of Marie-Antoinette’s most personal retreat.

Beyond the small palace, the experience continues into the surrounding English-style gardens, a radical departure from Versailles’ strict symmetry. Winding paths lead you through romantic groves, sculpted lawns, and secluded viewpoints, offering carefully staged perspectives meant to feel natural, spontaneous, and deeply personal. The Queen specifically requested the Temple of Love to see from her bedroom window and the Belvédère, a light filled lounge for summer.

Your guide will lead you through the gardens of the Petit Trianon, including a visit to the Queen’s Theatre. Remarkably preserved, this intimate playhouse is considered one of the finest historic theatres in Europe. It reveals a lesser-known and deeply fascinating side of Marie Antoinette, as she was the only Queen of France to step onto the stage herself, performing for a carefully chosen audience of friends in a world where she could briefly escape her royal role.

You will surely be astonished to find a village in the middle of a royal estate! The Queen’s Hamlet is a charming, storybook village created by Marie Antoinette as a private escape from court life. As you wander among thatched cottages, flower-filled gardens, a working farm, and a tranquil lake, you discover an idealized vision of rural life inspired by Enlightenment ideals. Far from the rigid etiquette of Versailles, this pastoral setting allowed the queen to reconnect with nature and simplicity.

The Farm has many different features, including a lighthouse (the Marlborough Tower), a working dairy and tasting room, a dovecote, an orchard, and more. Marie Antoinette hosted small gatherings at the Hamlet and used it as a space to relax. She did not work on the farm, but insisted that it should be functional, using it as an lesson for the royal children.

On this exclusive visit, you will see the Queen’s House and the Dairy tasting room with your guide.

If you select a full day experience, you will have time for lunch (meal cost not included), and visit the Palace of Versailles and the gardens in the afternoon. With exclusive VIP access to the Queen’s Private Apartments, you step beyond the public splendor of Versailles into spaces normally closed to visitors. These hidden rooms include intimate private salons, Marie Antoinette’s discreet bedroom quarters, and concealed passageways that allowed her to move unseen through the palace. This confidential world reveals how the queen lived, received trusted allies, and exercised influence away from ceremony and crowds.