I’ve heard about Marie Antoinette and her frivolous ways before, but Sofia Coppola’s rocked-out film version revealed a different side of the reluctant queen. Married into the extravagant lifestyle of French royalty, she sought to retreat to the simple life in a rustic village, in the middle of the Palace grounds. The Palace of Versailles may awe with its opulence and size, but it’s really the Hameau de la Reine (The Queen’s hamlet) that took my breath away. Designed by the Queen’s preferred architect, Richard Mique and painter Hubert Robert, the hamlet is self-contained, with a meadow filled with lakes and ponds, strewn with shrubs and flowers and quaint cottages…