Days near Paris . besported themselves, and theirwives went to market, in the royal carriages.^ On reaching the grille of the Cour d^Honneur of thePetit Trianon, visitors should enter on the left and ask forthe concierge for the interior of the palace. But if theyonly wish to visit the gardens, they may enter freely froma door out of the court on the right of the grille. ^ During the seventy-five days of his reign, Ledru RoUin had at his ordersfour carriages, eighteen draught and saddle horses, and ten servants. LE PETIT TRIANON 99 The Petit Trianon was built by Gabriel for Louis the bot
Days near Paris . besported themselves, and theirwives went to market, in the royal carriages.^ On reaching the grille of the Cour d^Honneur of thePetit Trianon, visitors should enter on the left and ask forthe concierge for the interior of the palace. But if theyonly wish to visit the gardens, they may enter freely froma door out of the court on the right of the grille. ^ During the seventy-five days of his reign, Ledru RoUin had at his ordersfour carriages, eighteen draught and saddle horses, and ten servants. LE PETIT TRIANON 99 The Petit Trianon was built by Gabriel for Louis the botanical garden which Louis XIV. had formed atthe instigation of the Due dAyen. It was intended as aminiature of the Grand Trianon, as that palace had been aminiature of Versailles. The palace was often used byLouis XV., who was here first attacked by the smallpox,of which he died. Louis XVI. gave it to Marie Antoi-nette, who made its gardens, and whose happiest dayswere spent here. Mme Campan describes Marie Antoi-. LE PETIT TRIANON. nette, vetue en blanc, avec un simple chapeau de paille,une legere badine a la main, marchant k pied, suivie dunseul valet, dans les allees qui conduisent au Petit-Trianon. The king gave her the Little Trianon. From that time sheoccupied herself in embellishing the gardens, without permittingany alteration in the building or any change in the furniture,which had become very shabby, and which remained, in 1789,just as it was in the reign of Louis XV. Everything, withoutexception, was preserved, and the queen slept in a faded bed,which had served the Comtesse du Barry. The reproach of ex-travagance, generally made to the queen, is the most inconceiv- lOO ^A YS NEAR PARIS able of the popular errors which have been established in theworld respecting her character. She had the very opposite fault,and I can prove that she often carried economy as far as realshabbiness, especially in a sovereign. She took a great fancy toher retreat at Trianon ; she used t
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