France in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

Temple spends a "year in Europe, Paris," and she and Gowan are married at the American Embassy there (121). The Crillon, where their reception is held, a luxury hotel which opened in Paris in 1909. The palace at Versailles, near Paris, is also mentioned in the novel as a facetious standard of comparison for the massive house that the "Paris architect" builds for Sutpen (32).