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A Motor Tour Through France And England - A Record Of Twenty-One And A Half Days Automobiling (1911) (Paperback)
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A Motor Tour Through France And England - A Record Of Twenty-One And A Half Days Automobiling (1911) (Paperback)
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for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3II PARIS TO BLOIS
textit{August i8th. Our start was made, in a windy rain storm, up
the Champs Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe looming black against a
leaden sky, through the Bois to Versailles. On arriving at our
destination the rain ceased, giving us an opportunity to revisit
the bath of the Bosquet de la Collon- ade, the memory of its beauty
making one desirous to return to it again and again. At the Palace
we confined our time to the Galleries containing our favourite
portraits by Lebrun and Nattier. The last portrait that Vigee
Lebrun painted of Queen Marie Antoinette hangs at Versailles and is
known as "Marie Antoinette and her Children." It is the one of the
doomed Queen in which she is seated beside a cradle, the Duke of
Normandy on her knee, the little Madame Royale at her side, and the
Dauphin pointing into the cradle. When the doors of the Salon of
1783 were thrown open the painting was not quite finished and for
some days the frame reserved for it remained empty. It was on the
eve of what was to become the Revolution and the country was
speaking in no hushed whispers of the public deficit in the
nation's treasury and gazing bewildered at the bankruptcy that
threatened the land. The empty frame drew forth the bitter jest "
Voila le deficit." Gazing at the Queen portrayed in all her
glorious beauty one dreads to think of that lovely head bowed
beneath the knife of the guillotine, and of the cruelties endured
by her and her dear ones. The Nattier portraits of the daughters of
Louis Fifteenth are all very beautiful and the one of Madame
Pompadour exquisite. At the Hotel des Reservoirs, the old mansion
once occupied by that famous courtesan, Madame Pompadour, we had a
cup of chocolate, and could, in fancy, see the rooms crowded with
the white-wigged, silken-clad belles and beaux who flock...
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