La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652 . andfantastic grace before they were remodelled andaligned by rule. At its four corners the Domebore four pretty little towers ; on the side towardthe garden was a projecting portico surmountedby a terrace enclosed by a gallery. On this ter-race, in time, Mademoiselle and her ladies listenedto many a serenade and looked down on manya riot. The rest of the facade (as far as the pavilionde Flore) formed a succession of angles, now jut-ting forward, now receding, in conformations verypleasing to the eye. The opposite wing and thepavilion de Marsan had not been b
La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652 . andfantastic grace before they were remodelled andaligned by rule. At its four corners the Domebore four pretty little towers ; on the side towardthe garden was a projecting portico surmountedby a terrace enclosed by a gallery. On this ter-race, in time, Mademoiselle and her ladies listenedto many a serenade and looked down on manya riot. The rest of the facade (as far as the pavilionde Flore) formed a succession of angles, now jut-ting forward, now receding, in conformations verypleasing to the eye. The opposite wing and thepavilion de Marsan had not been built. Close athand lay an almost unbroken country. The rearof the palace looked out upon a parterre ; beyondthe parterre lay a chaos from which the Carrouselwas not wholly delivered until the Second stood the famous Hotel de Rambouillet,close to the hotel of Madame de Chevreuse, con-fidential friend of Anne of Austria and interestedenemy of Richelieu. There were other hotels, 1 Metnoires de Mademoiselle de > z>(-z o Z o CO LJ Ul ^ I ° H < o ° en u. CO J £TLJ h UJ II- La Grande Mademoiselle 23 entangled with churches, with a hospital, a Courtof Miracles, gardens, and wild lands overgrownwith weeds and grasses. There were shops andstables; and away at the far end of the settlementstood the Louvre, closing the perspective. The Court and the city crowded together aroundthe Bird House and the Swans Pond, in the Deda-lus and before the Echo, ogling or criticising oneanother. At that time the Place de la Concordewas a great, green field, called the Rabbit one part of the field stood the Kings citys limits separated the Champs-Elyseesfrom the wild lands running down to the Seine atthe point where the Pont de la Concorde nowstands. This space, enclosed by the boundaries ofthe city, assured to the Court a park-like retreat inthe green fields of the open country. The enclosurewas entered by the gate of the Conference. Thecelebr
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