already, she knew, attached to the girl. The Queen's intimacy with her servants at Trianon had been a never-failing happiness, and she thought with infinite tenderness of the troubles their loyal sympathy for her must be causing them now.
Passing through the gardeners' enclosure and the porte d'entrée she had come into the English garden. Advancing a few steps, she had suddenly caught sight of Vaudreuil sitting by the small circular "ruine,"[1] dressed, she remembered, in the slouch hat and large cloak which had become fashionable since he had
- ↑ "Dec. 5, 1780. Commencé par ordre de M. Mique le model de la partie de la grotte . . . du coté des montagnes . . . là dessus une petite ruine d'architecture, l'avoir penté, planté, et gazonné." "Detail estimatif d'une ruine formant la naissance d'une rivière, savoir—Fouille de terre—maçonnerie . . . le massif et le rigolle des fondations . . . pierre dure . . . colonnes avec les murs au derrière . . . 7 colonnes . . . 7 chapiteaux . . . partie de la voute . . . le parement des murs . . . le fossite pour l'architecture . . . Recapitulation . . . 7 chapiteaux Ioniques, antique . . . 5 membres . . . 5 rosaces . . . 9358 livres" (Arch. Nat. O1, 1878). The Temple de l'Amour is more than once called a "ruine,"
The marriage certificate of Alexandre Charpentier, in 1823 (at that time chef d'atelier aux Pepinières Royales de Trianon, and, later, for many years jardinier en chef at Trianon), shows that he was the son of Louis Toussaint Charpentier, pensionnaire, and Marie Anne Lemaignan (Mairie de Versailles).
