Days near Paris . exaggerations of thecost of this little fete, which was put at such a ridiculous price,that the fagots burned in the moat seemed to have required thedestruction of a whole forest. The queen, hearing these reports,desired to know precisely how much wood was burned ; it wasfound that fifteen hundred fagots had sufficed to keep the fireburning till four in the morning.—Mine Campan. Near the Salon de Musique is the Salle de Spectacle in GARDENS OF THE PETIT TRIANON 103 which Marie Antoinette acted in the Devin du Village andthe Barbier de Seville. Madame, the Comtesse de Provence
Days near Paris . exaggerations of thecost of this little fete, which was put at such a ridiculous price,that the fagots burned in the moat seemed to have required thedestruction of a whole forest. The queen, hearing these reports,desired to know precisely how much wood was burned ; it wasfound that fifteen hundred fagots had sufficed to keep the fireburning till four in the morning.—Mine Campan. Near the Salon de Musique is the Salle de Spectacle in GARDENS OF THE PETIT TRIANON 103 which Marie Antoinette acted in the Devin du Village andthe Barbier de Seville. Madame, the Comtesse de Provence, refused to play in thecomedy, at the theatre of the Little Trianon ; she said it wouldbe a breach of etiquette. But I play ; I, myself, said the queen, and the king hasno objection. Madame, replied her sister-in-law, * it is here just as Bos-suet said it was in the case of theatres, great examples for, goodreasons against. A princess of Savoy must never shrink fromgreat examples in default of good reasons. ^%.. FARM OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. * Brother, said the queen with animation, calling the ComtedArtois, as it were, to her aid, come and take the side of Ma-dame, and let us prostrate ourselves before the eternal grandeurof the house of Savoy. I thought, up till now, that the house ofAustria was the first. . Ladies, broke in the Comte dArtois, I believed just thecontrary; I believed, for example, that you had a serious dis-pute, but as I see it turning to jest, I think I had better notmeddle in it.* —Souvenirs de la Marquise de Cr/qzn. The Duchesse dAbrantes gives us a pretty picture ofNapoleon I. playing with the one-year-old King of Rome T04 DA YS NEAR PARIS on the lawn at Trianon, giving him his sword to rideupon. There is not much of importance in the town of Ver-sailles—La Cite du Grand Rot. If the visitor leaves thegardens by the gate of the Orangerie at the foot of theEscalier des Cent Marches^ he will find himself facing theRue de IOrangerie, which will lead him to
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