Guests wearing baroque style costumes take part in a ball in the Hall of Mirrors at the Chateau de Versailles Palace as part of the sixth edition's of the Fetes Galantes fancy dress evening which theme is the Royal Wedding of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, in Versailles on May 23, 2022. - The annual fancy dress ball aims to re-create the baroque splendour of the Sun King's dazzling court feasts held to show off the wealth and power of France's longest-reigning monarch. For tickets costing more than five hundred euros, guests can wander through the private apartments of the chateau, which is a World Heritage site and one of France's biggest tourist attractions. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

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