Versailles is a tableau vivant of a vanished order performed by visitors and personnel alike. Its rooms, halls, and galleries form a syntax in which meaning is suspended between the imagined grandeur of Louis XIV and the traumatic void left by the guillotine. Its role is not to preserve history but to perform its erasure by transforming catastrophe into spectacle. Versailles presents the strange reconstruction of a fractured past, a space where the fall of monarchy is meticulously curated to cast doubt on whether it ever truly occurred.