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PRESENT OCCUPANTS. 371
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« Every Autumn Sunday The Inhabitants Fr...
any attached credence to , certain and any ieces who are of inclined furniture to will believe be in undeceived the traditions b y
they referring were * to set St . Simon to p , auction who tells calling albout the the unseeml sale of y the way D in aup which hin ' s
furniture and j up ewelry the most , indecent exhibition that he ever witnessed . It took lace at Marlyin the apartments of the
Duchess of Burgundy p , the doors of which , were open to all who chose From to present 1711 till themselves 1719 the as bidders hill-side . castle which had passed
through so many hands was entirely deserted . But in that year the Berri [ Regent in exchange presented for it the to his remote notorious and daug loomy hter castle , the of D Amboise uchess de .
, g That Count dissi de pated Biom princess to whom nominated she was privatel as its con y married stable a . son The of old L » auzun road ,
marquerades surrounding , it the , there details rung of with which the the uproarious most scandalous mirth of revels chronicler and of
would blush to record , although several princes and princesses the In blood 1736 royal Meudon took leading assed into parts the in possession them . of a woman whose
_23 iety was of a severe p monastic character , Marie Leezinska having that dictine year communit bought it for but the owing purpose to the of interference establishing of there the a Due Bene de
_-Sichelieu and the y Duchess , , de Maille , the king opposed the religious scheme of his wifewho finally gave it to her father , the exiled
, Xin The g Stanislaus Revolution of Poland lished . a still greater change . The old
Chateau was transformed accomp into a fortressand the green sward in , front and a of ditch it , where and breastwork formerly bals substituted c 7 iam 2 oetres for were it . held Carnot , was then . dug _pro up - ,
. on nounced reading hin it shoul to his be d report impregnable be converted , decreed ; into and that the a the manufactory Committee newer edifice of of Public , munitions built Safet hy the of y ,
war Daup in which , -makers and bullet-runners worked both night and , day , till Bonap gun arte returned from the Italian campaign . The reconnoitre
great the position balloon of , made the allies use , of was at constructed the "battle of in the Fleurus orangery to . All the
the powder vaults which beneath _BonaiD the arte Chateau ' s first lest army the left Duke in Paris of Brunswick , was stored or the in
Prince ital of and Coburg appropriat might e it march to themselves , into the . comp During arativel four y defenceless years , all
the cap ammunition in France was sent thereand it was to the carelessness spare of the commandantwho lefc a lighted , match fall among
some powder near a door of the magazine , the , violencefct that the of destruction revolutionary of the
mob Chateau which should it is be commonl attributed y supposed , not to sacked and set a fire to it . The , of Meudon to
the honour public of , first belongs throwing to the the [ Revolutionary woods and Government parks . During open the
Present Occupants. 371
_PRESENT OCCUPANTS . 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/11/
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