This was the first of the Paris trip books I started reading. It's a meaty biography of the palace of Versailles that I saw at a bookstore in the palace. Interestingly, I only realized a week later that the little bookshop (maybe 12 x 30) occupied what had once been the entire stage of the palace's impossibly cramped opera venue, housed in one of the ground floor arched passageways between the main courtyard and the gardens.
As usual, once I saw the palace I got very interested in its history, and this book is a good overview of its construction, use, and how it has changed since it ceased being used as a royal residence in 1789. It is a very new book, having been reviewed just two months ago in the Times Online out of London. I liked it fine - although I thought it would have more on the actual construction, and I thought it badly needed maps of the palace and grounds. It had one of sorts in the beginning, but it wasn't very helpful, and the only map of the grounds was in the endpaper - and it predated construction of the Petit Trianon and Marie-Antoinette's hamlet, and so wasn't very helpful if you didn't have resort to other maps.