. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. Wigs;but these were swept away by Louis XV, who made greatchanges in this part of the chateau. One was the kingsbath-room; in others the people of the service, the gargonsbleus, were in waiting, and in some he kept his dogs. Whereone sees to-day Louis XVs cabinet of the Chase there wasformerly a staircase, the back staircase to which Saint-Simonfrequently refers; by it the king could go down to the marblecourt if he did not wish to take his coach at the public en-trance, and he made use of it often to grant secret audiencesin his cabinet when for one
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. Wigs;but these were swept away by Louis XV, who made greatchanges in this part of the chateau. One was the kingsbath-room; in others the people of the service, the gargonsbleus, were in waiting, and in some he kept his dogs. Whereone sees to-day Louis XVs cabinet of the Chase there wasformerly a staircase, the back staircase to which Saint-Simonfrequently refers; by it the king could go down to the marblecourt if he did not wish to take his coach at the public en-trance, and he made use of it often to grant secret audiencesin his cabinet when for one reason or another it might havebeen unwise to have had the person received pass throughthe Hall of the Guards and the crowded antechambers; by italso the people of the service came and went. THE BILLIARD-ROOM From the kings cabinet and from the cabinet of Wigs doorsled to the billiard-room, which became later the bedchamberof Louis XV and of Louis XVI. King Louis XIV was fondof billiards, and his taste for the game lasted a long time. 40. The Private Apartments of the King On winter evenings he played with M. de Vendome and theDue de Gramont, and especially with the Marechal de Vil-leroi and M. de Chamillart; the latter, who became Secretaryof State, owed the foundation of his fortune to his skillwith the cue. Among its decorations the billiard-room hadseventeen large branched candlesticks of gilded bronze, whichwere the work of Boule. THE CABINETS OF AGATES AND OF JEWELS These two apartments, separated only by arches, formed aglittering hall, and were rilled with precious objects. To-gether with the billiard-room, just mentioned, they occupiedthe north side of the marble court on the main floor. UnderLouis XV the cabinet of Agates was changed and redecoratedand became the salon of the Clocks, one of the most beau-tiful of his private apartments. The arches were closedby a wall, and the cabinet of Jewels was transformed intoa dining-room. But, as was generally the case with Lo
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