who now came in as they liked passed her by and even went up on to the terrace behind her by the staircase at her left hand.[1] The Queen knew that her concierge (Bonnefoy Du Plan)[2] was informed that she was there, and would certainly, on seeing them from his attic window over the chapel, send someone to ask them to go further from the house. It might not have been wise, but her old servants had done all they dared to protect her privacy. She had before now, when wandering about alone, heard the coldness and unconcern with which the Bersy brothers had directed strangers in the grounds. Just as she had expected, a moment later, the Queen had heard the slam of the chapel door[3] and had thought that Lagrange[4] would probably conduct them into the avenue by the passage of the porte de la ménagerie,
- ↑ After May, 1789, the grounds were thrown open (Desjardins, p. 345).
- ↑ Le Petit Trianon, Desjardins, pp. 188, 189.
- ↑ The great door of the chapel, which led into the royal gallery, opened upon a terrace then joined to the western terrace of the house.
- ↑ The name of the Suisse (in 1789) in charge of the porte du perron de la Chapelle was Lagrange. His rooms were behind the chapel (Desjardins, p. 189).
