What was in Versailles before they built the palace?

Question: What was in Versailles before they built the palace!?

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It was a small chateau of the royal family!. Louis XIV had had it enlarged once in the early 1660's!. In 1677 he decided to move the court and the administrative apparatus of the state there, and then the real construction began!Www@QuestionHome@Com