acted in such as Almaviva.[1] He turned and looked at her, but did not rise or make the smallest gesture of recognition. It was by her own orders that at Trianon her ladies and gentlemen did not rise or put away their occupations when the Queen entered a room; but she had lately become sensitive, and on this occasion she had felt his rudeness.[2] After all, she was the Queen; he was there as her honoured guest, where the highest in the land desired to be, and ordinary good manners required him to do more than sit still and look at her without seeming to notice her. The Queen remembered her sensation of displea-
- ↑ "Le chapeau ronds a larges bords, que l'on appelait à la jockey, remplaçait déjà le chapeau à trois cornes nommé à l'Androsmane." On avait quitté le rabat, la bourse, les manchettes et l'épée (Modes et Usages, De Reiset, vol. i. p. 469).
- ↑ "J'ai beaucoup vu le comte de Vaudreuil à Londres, sans avoir jamais découvert la distinction dont ses contemporains lui out fait honneur. Il avait été le coryphée de cette école d'exaggération qui régnait avant la Revolution, se passionnant pour toutes les petites choses, et restant froide devant les grandes . . . Il . . . gardait ses grands airs pour le salon de Madame de Polignac; et son ingratitude pour la Reine, dont je l'ai entender parler avec la dernière inconvenance" (Memoirs de la Comtesse de Boigne, p. 144).
which did not seem to mean more than the reproduction of an older building. One "ruine" mentioned had six Corinthian pillars, and was near the "onze arpents."
