Magnificent, and impossible to stand still in. Hall of Mirrors, Versailles. Visitor movement becomes a form of crowd processing rather than a cultural encounter. Photo by author. I first noticed the problem not in the architecture, but in the choreography. Inside the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, surrounded by gilded ceilings and historical density rarely matched anywhere in Europe, I realized I was not looking at the room. I was being moved through it. The timed-entry ticke
