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Versailles
Versailles is a town near Paris and the site of the vast palace built by Louis XIV, which became the seat of the French court and a symbol of absolute monarchy. In 1871 the German Empire was proclaimed in its Hall of Mirrors after the defeat of France. In 1919 the peace treaty with Germany was signed in the same hall, marking the end of the German Empire's era.
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