. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. paintings *by Cotelle, Allegrain, and Martin, representing views of thechateau and gardens of Versailles. As for Trianon-sous-Bois, so called because the grove which adjoined it was asmall ornamental wood, it contained a number of little apart-ments which served as lodgings for the kings brother, Due dOrleans, and his wife, and for the kings grandsonsand granddaughters-in-law, the Due and Duchesse de Bour-gogne and the Due and Duchesse de Berry. On the 22d ofJanuary, 1688, the king dined for the first time in his newchateau, in company with Mons
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. paintings *by Cotelle, Allegrain, and Martin, representing views of thechateau and gardens of Versailles. As for Trianon-sous-Bois, so called because the grove which adjoined it was asmall ornamental wood, it contained a number of little apart-ments which served as lodgings for the kings brother, Due dOrleans, and his wife, and for the kings grandsonsand granddaughters-in-law, the Due and Duchesse de Bour-gogne and the Due and Duchesse de Berry. On the 22d ofJanuary, 1688, the king dined for the first time in his newchateau, in company with Monseigneur and Madame deMaintenon. The gardens of Trianon contained, and still contain, bos-quets and fountains, though much has been changed sincethe time of Louis XIV. From the terrace two splendid stonestaircases descend to the grand canal. In both terrace andgardens there were jets of water as at Versailles. Mansarthad designed the gardens of Trianon, and flowers abounded1 Many of these paintings are now in the Chateau of Versailles. IIO. Trianon there, all the flowers of France, and rare plants from Switzer-land, from Constantinople, and from Persia. One sum-mer, says Saint-Simon, the king took to going very oftenin the evening to Trianon, and gave permission once for allto all the court, men and women, to follow him. There wasa grand collation for the princesses, his daughters, who tooktheir friends there, and indeed all the women went to it ifthey pleased. . Nothing was ever more magnificent thanthese soirees of Trianon. All the flowers of the parterreswere renewed every day; and I have seen the king and allthe court obliged to go away because of the tuberoses, theodor of which perfumed the air, but so powerfully on accountof their quantity that nobody could remain in the garden,although very vast, and stretching like a terrace all along thecanal.,, 1 There were from time to time splendid fetes at Trianon,but Dangeau has left one picture of the royal family atTrianon, in th
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