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PRESENT OCCUPANTS. 369
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« Every Autumn Sunday The Inhabitants Fr...
ceilings and panels painted by Jouvenet , De la Fosse , Andrea , and
Coypel In 1795 . tlie Dauphin , finding the Chateau inconveniently small ,
had another _constructedwhich is the one that was inhabited by the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte , . An ancient engraving" of the been noble
former is still preserved at Versailles . It must have a - looking after and ornate the edifice existing , without , in one the was any Italian thing finished sty of le , , Louis meretricious symmetrical because Quatorze in disp it its looked paid lay proportions . it too Shortl a visit like y , ,
the but This hotel could marked of not a disapproval be wealth prevaile y bourgeois d of on the to to architectural enter be worth it , y of taste so great of the an Daup honour hin .
was not offensive to him ; he "was , indeed , so pleased at the aversion with which his new chateau inspired his august father , stolid countenance
th and at he a smile afterwards was actuall expressed y seen his to pass satisfaction over his at the effect it pro- ; of visits from
ducedbecause it would free him from the prospect the king , or De Maintenon . On the that account which the had dislike been forced which
Monsigneur him had conceived to a contrary for sentiment palace , , though its contiguity upon to "Versailles , gave and way Marly did not enable him to entirely absent
himself from Court as he had done when residing at the more distant not the Choisy coucher with le [ a Roi of good . the The kin grace duties g were , at of le gone bein ast g with throug present scrupulous h by at the the gr heir and and app unvary souper arent and ing , if
exactness . But the instant they were accomplished , he drove _baqjt to Meudonwere it even so late as midnight , and there ,
abandoned himself , to his natural indolence and the enjoyment of it personal afforded freedom to the , constraint which was un all der the which greater he because felt himself of the placed contrast at
Versailles . A coterierather than a court , surrounded the Dauphin ; for he
possessed form mor neither , e extensive the talent circle nor Such the as requisite it wasit streng congregated th of will round to
him for a the simple reason . that he was the , heir apparent to the throneand would in all probability one day be the disposer of the
destinies , of Erance . But Meudon resembled Versailles in having a rei After gning the favourite death of , the for it leg still itimate had one its that Daup influential hiness in position all but title was .
, beautiful occupied by like Madlle the Sultanas . de Chouin of " , The who , Gr neither eat King accomp " was lished nothing nor
, more lexion than flat a nose fat , and dumpy wide , middle mouth -aged without woman its , full with comp brown lement com of
feature teeth p . , in A her pair face of , merry and they , intelli were gent of , eyes unequal , were size the . onl She y redeeming ruled the father and
man Daup aged hin more to make absolutel the Duke y than and De Duchess Maintenon of B ruled urgund his y treat her ; as
Present Occupants. 369
PRESENT OCCUPANTS . 369
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/9/
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