The Palace of Versailles — The Amazing 67,000 Square Meter Palace Built Without One Single Place to Poop

Servants and aristocratic visitors often relieved themselves on back stairs, along the darkened corridors, or in any out-of-the-way place. The writer Horace Walpole agreed with other English visitors to Versailles that the approach was magnificent but the squalor inside was unspeakable.
—James M. Anderson in Daily Life During The French Revolution.

—>A gigantic machine was built in 1684 to move water through pipes into...the fountains and not the palace itself.
—>144 years later, a toilet was installed...for the king and queen only.
—>Somehow, for some reason, the architect designed a building and "forgot" the inhabitants need to poop.

The conclusion to this may exceed our ability to accept...

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