[63] Orangerie.—The following description, given by la Fontaine of the same place in his time, is exactly descriptive of its present situation:
“Comme nos gens avoient encore de loisir ils firent un tour à l’orangerie. La beauté et le nombre des orangers et des autres plantes qu’on y conserve on ne sauroit exprimer. Il y a tel de ces arbres qui a resisté aux attaques de cent hivers.”
“As our friends had still some time to spare, they took a turn in the orangerie, or green house. The beauty and number of orange and other plants here preserved, cannot be described. There are, among these trees, some which have resisted the attacks of a hundred winters.”
La Fontaine, Amours de Psyche & de Cupidon.
[64] The distance is great from the hand of an assassin to the heart of an honest man.
[65] The king’s apartment.
[66] Lodging account at the Little Trianon.
| Francs. | |
| Three masters’ rooms | 36 |
| Wax lights | 6 |
| Wood | 9 |
| Four servants’ beds | 12 |
| Total | 63 |
N. B. Sixty-three francs of french money make exactly two guineas and a half english; and this sum was asked for one night’s lodging (without eating or wine) for three masters’ beds and four servants’.
[67] To the nation.