emerged every morning to visit the occupiers of the
twelve smaller pavilions, Les Pavilions des Seigneurs, the constellations,
his courtiers, who came out to meet him and swelled his train. These
pavilions, arranged on each side of the gardens, stood in double avenues
of clipt lime-trees looking upon the garden and its fountains, and leading
up to the palace.
The device of the sun was carried out in the palace itself, where all the
smaller apartments circled round the grand salon, the king and queen
having apartments to the back, the dauphin and dauphine to the front, each
apartment consisting of an anteroom, bedroom, and sitting-room, and each
set being connected with one of the four square saloons, which opened upon
the great octagonal hall, of which four faces were occupied by chimney-
pieces and four by the doors of the smaller saloons. The central hall
occupied the whole height of the edifice, and was lighted from the upper
story.
The great ambition of every courtier was to be of the Marly circle, and
all curried favor with the king by asking to accompany him on his weekly
journey to Marly.
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