King Louis XIV’s Versailles party room is getting the royal treatment. American Friends of Versailles aims to raise some €1.2 million (about $1.3 million) for the restoration of the Salon de Diane, which begins this month. Two years from now, the antechamber’s tired, cloudy ceiling paintings honoring the Roman goddess of the hunt will regain their divine glow—just in time for the 250th celebration of American independence, secured with help from France.
“It’s really important to continue strengthening ties between France and America,” Alicia Bryan, the impassioned new San Antonio, Texas–based president at American Friends of Versailles, told me over the phone. “Our collective mission should be to all come together to preserve our great histories.” (Read more.)
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