In the _Galerie des Glaces_, Dussieux tells us, there was a
ball "not exclusively aristocratic, but nevertheless very gay and
animated."
Within the past forty years the treasury of the French Republic has not
infrequently been taxed for repairs at Versailles and Trianon. More
than a million francs were spent on the chapel alone. Improvements in
the park, including the restoration of the Basin of Neptune, the
Orangery and the Colonnade, cost another million.
"This Versailles," exclaims a French author, "does it not attract to
our country strangers without number, does it not lend lasting prestige
to the land of France? . . . Outside of the Invalides and the Louvre,
what edifices equal it in evoking the memorable periods with which they
are associated? What lasting respect do these annals of stone and
bronze merit from men of taste! These salons, gardens, statues, works
of art, attached irrevocably to the Past, bid us pause and ponder long
upon the matchless Story of Versailles."
[*]The final treaty of peace between France and Germany was signed in
the Swan Hotel at Frankfort, Germany, on May 10, 1871.
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