The Battle of Rocroi, 19 May 1643 by François Joseph Heim The Duke of Enghien ordering his troops to stop fighting the Spanish, who have come to him to surrender.

The Hall of Battles is longer than the Hall of Mirrors, 394 feet, and is lined with huge paintings of French victories through the ages, including oils by Delacroix and Fragonard. Its creation was the idea of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and it replaced apartments which had been occupied in the 17th and