If you didn't know that there are nine arts in this world, now it's the perfect time to update your hesitating memory with a thorough recap. Don't worry, you are not alone in your innocent ignorance: my knowledge had stopped at the seventh one and on second thought I'm not even sure I can recall the first six... But with a little help of our friend, the Internet, here they are, all nine, in disciplined order: 1. Architecture, 2. Sculpture, 3. Painting, 4. Music, 5. Poetry, 6. Dance, 7. Theater/Cinema, 8. Photography and 9. Comics. That's it, we can now brag about our distinguished erudition at some elevated French parties. If we ever get invited, that is.
I already knew what great buildings, sculptures, paintings and other artsy things Versailles possessed, but comics... this one still had progresses to make if it were to enter the public consciousness in this association. But since it's inconceivable that not all arts are represented in Versailles, this situation should have changed: every year since 2009 a comics exhibition of a guest star artist is organized in the superb settings of the City Hall's great room.