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THE DOWNFALL AND THE ELEVATION. T HE great clock of Versailles Palace was striking eleven when King Louis XV., coming out of his private apartments, crossed the gallery nearest and called out for th…
ANDREA IN FAVOR. A T three in the afternoon Mdlle. de Taverney came out of her rooms dressed to perform her duty as reader to the princess. On reaching the Trianon Summerhouse she was told that her …
NICOLE IS VALUED PROPERLY. T HE only guest left in the palace was Cardinal Rohan redoubting his gallantry towards the princess, who received him but cooly. As the Dauphin retired he feared it would …
ONE MAN’S MEAT IS ANOTHER’S POISON. A T ten in the morning, Andrea was writing to her father to inform him of the happy news which Richelieu had already communicated to him. Her room, in the corrido…
THE ROAD TO PREMIERSHIP IS NOT STREWN WITH ROSES. W HILE all these petty plots were going on at Trianon amid the trees and flowers, making things lively for the people of that trifling world, the va…
THE ENDLESS LAW SUIT. I T is not hard to guess what the dainty duke suffered in passing through the dirty and nauseating Paris of his era to reach the foul hole among ill-kempt houses which was call…
THE SECRET SOCIETY LODGE. T HE famous royal special court, the “Bed of Justice,” (which is the French equivalent for the “Star Chamber,”) was held with all the ceremonial which royal pride required…
THE INNERMOST CIRCLE. T HOSE who went out were brothers of the second and third circles, and left seven who were masters in their lodge. They recognized each other by signs proving they were admitte…
BODY AND SOUL. B ALSAMO was punctual and found, at six o’clock, Marat and his servant, a woman of all work, decking up the room with flowers in a vase in honor of the visitor. At sight of the master…
THE DIAMOND COLLAR. R OUSSEAU had been cheated into going to take breakfast with the royal favorite: he was formally invited by the Dauphiness to come to Trianon to conduct in person one of his oper…
