The Petit Trianon is a very small and very unassuming country house. Mme.
de Maintenon describes it in June as "a palace enchanted and perfumed."
Its pretty simple rooms are only interesting from their associations. The
furniture is mostly of the times of Louis XVI. The stone stair has a
handsome iron balustrade; the salons are paneled in white.
Here Marie Antoinette st to Mme. Lebrun for the picture in which she is
represented with her children. In the dining-room is a secretaire given to
Louis XVI. by the States of Burgundy, and portraits of the King and Marie
Antoinette. The Cabinet de Travail of the queen was a cabinet given to her
on her marriage by the town of Paris; in the Salle de Reception are four
pictures by Watteau; the Boudoir has a Sevres bust of the queen; in the
Chambre-a-coucher is the queen's bed, and a portrait of the Dauphin by
Lebrun. These simple rooms are a standing defense of the queen from the
false accusations brought against her at the Revolution as to her
extravagance in the furnishing of the Petit Trianon. Speaking of her happy
domestic life, Mme.
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