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the elevated rocks, she called to Marie Anne Lemaignan, whose father's cottage was not far off. Fancying that she heard the girl running to her, the Queen had turned and was surprised to see, instead of the girl, a garcon de la Chambre, who, in a state of great agitation, handed her a letter from M. de Saint Priest, a minister at the Palace.[1] Her memory recalled the look of that man, also in the fashionable Spanish hat and cloak, flying over one of the upright rocks placed near the path by her orders.[2] He had been so anxious that she should wait at the house whilst he fetched the carriage that she relinquished her first thought of hurrying back by the woods, and she turned instead to go to the little bridge which crossed the tiny waterfall. How fond she was of that little rustic bridge, which she had had placed high up on rocks, hiding the Theatre and

  1. Légendes de Trianon, Madame Julie Lavergne, p. 76.
  2. (Rocks placed) "Pièce donnant au bord du lac de l'ancien jardin cote des rochers . . . au long du chemin de l'emplacement de la Ruine sur la conduitte en bois à la 2ième Source du Ravin" (O1, 1882). In 1788 "Pièce au dessus du Rocher du Ravin et . . . passage des voiture sur le pont de bois. . . . Pièce à droite en face du Rocher du Ravin."