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title: "France's Palace of Versailles being evacuated for security reasons"
description: "PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - France's Palace of Versailles is evacuating its visitors for security reasons and will be closed on Tuesday, the Chateau de Versailles said on social network X."
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# France's Palace of Versailles being evacuated for security reasons

> PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - France's Palace of Versailles is evacuating its visitors for security reasons and will be closed on Tuesday, the Chateau de Versailles said on social network X.

By Reuters · Published 17 October 2023, 16:15 SAST · Updated 17 October 2023, 16:06 SAST

## Content

BFM TV, citing police sources, said a bomb squad was on its way to the site.

On Oct. 14, one day after a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack, bomb alerts - which proved to be false - forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles and Paris' Gare de Lyon train station.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten)