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... pier glasses , and chandeliers to correspond , composed our motley furniture . It was a good specimen of French inns in general . We were followed by our hostess , the porter , two cooks , with caps on their heads , which had once been ...
... pier glasses , and chandeliers to correspond , composed our motley furniture . It was a good specimen of French inns in general . We were followed by our hostess , the porter , two cooks , with caps on their heads , which had once been ...
Page 115
... pier glasses at each end . The first room is for dinner parties , the next for ices , and the third for coffee . In the middle is a flying staircase , lined on each side with orange trees , ascending into a suite of upper dinner rooms ...
... pier glasses at each end . The first room is for dinner parties , the next for ices , and the third for coffee . In the middle is a flying staircase , lined on each side with orange trees , ascending into a suite of upper dinner rooms ...
Page 199
... pier glasses , and lustres of fine diamond cut glass , which latter looked like so many little glittering cas- cades . Each room was in a blaze of light , and filled with parties taking ices , or drinking coffee . Each room communicated ...
... pier glasses , and lustres of fine diamond cut glass , which latter looked like so many little glittering cas- cades . Each room was in a blaze of light , and filled with parties taking ices , or drinking coffee . Each room communicated ...
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... grand gallery , which is seventy - two yards long , and fourteen broad , and has seven- teen lofty windows on one side , which look into the gardens , and seventeen immense pier glasses VERSAILLES . 257 In this on the opposite side to.
... grand gallery , which is seventy - two yards long , and fourteen broad , and has seven- teen lofty windows on one side , which look into the gardens , and seventeen immense pier glasses VERSAILLES . 257 In this on the opposite side to.
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