The palace was a very busy place, so Louis XIV had mini palaces built in the gardens - the Trianons - to escape from the formalities and pressures of the court.
Marie-Antoinette loved spending time at the Trianon, away from the crowds.
She added a theatre, where she performed from friends and family, and which now provides precious insights into the workings of a 17th-century theatre.
She also built a model hamlet of 10 small farm buildings around an artificial lake, including a farm, a dairy and a fisherman's cottage.
She would dress up as a shepherdess or milkmaid, milking cows and gathering eggs.
While this was fashionable in aristocratic circles at the time, the public grew outraged by her pretence of poverty, and felt she was completely out of touch with reality.
This hatred helped fuel the French Revolution.
