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Master Key (passe-partout)
Not on view
The gardens of Versailles were freely accessible except for the fenced-in groves, locked for protection against vandalism. As the British traveler Thomas Greene reported in 1764, "We met with a person who had keys of those places which were not public, and he conducted us through them all."
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