10 Euros Palace of Versailles

Part of Monnaie de Paris's ongoing "Monuments de France" series, this issue draws on France's long tradition of architectural commemoratives rather than any singular historical event. Versailles itself was famously stripped of its furnishings during the Revolution — the palace auctioned off contents over three days in 1793 — and only seriously restored under Louis-Philippe in the 1830s, who converted the interior into a museum "à toutes les gloires de la France" to sidestep republican objections to monarchical display.