This faces the great tank, into which Gaston d' Orleans, at
eight years old, caused one of the courtiers to be thrown, whom he
considered to have spoken to him disrespectfully. One side of the Cour de
la Fontaine, that toward the Jardin Anglais, is terminated by a pavilion
of the time of Louis XV.; the other, formerly decorated with statues is
attributed to Serlio. The fountain from which the court takes its name has
been often changed; a poor work by Petitot now replaces the grand designs
of the time of Francois I. and Henri IV. Beyond this court we find, on the
left, the Porte Doree, which faces the Chaussee de Maintenon, between the
Etang and Parterre; it was built under Francois I., and decorated by
Primaticcio with paintings, restored in 1835. It was by this entrance that
Charles V. arrived at the palace in 1539....
A staircase now leads to the first floor, and we enter the apartments of
Napoleon I., all furnished in the style of the First Empire. The cabinet
de l'Abdication is the place where he resigned his power. His bedroom
(containing the bed of Napoleon I.
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