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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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XIX
VILLA
TRIANON
The
story
of
the
Villa
Trianon
is
a
fairy-tale
come
true.
It
came
true
because
we
believed
in
it--many
fairy
stories
are
ready
and
waiting
to
come
true
if
only
people
will
believe
in
them
long
enough.
For
many
years
Elizabeth
Marbury
and
I
had
spent
our
summers
in
that
charming
French
town,
Versailles,
before
we
had
any
hope
of
realizing
a
home
of
our
own
there.
We
loved
the
place,
with
its
glamour
of
romance
and
history,
and
we
prowled
around
the
old
gardens
and
explored
the
old
houses,
and
dreamed
dreams
and
saw
visions.
One
old
house
that
particularly
interested
us
was
the
villa
that
had
once
been
the
home
of
the
Duc
de
Nemours,
son
of
Louis
Philippe.
It
was
situated
directly
on
the
famous
Park
of
Versailles
which
is,
as
everyone
knows,
one
of
the
most
beautiful
parks
in
all
the
world.
The
villa
had
not
been
lived
in
since
the
occupancy
of
de
Nemours.
Before
the
villa
came
to
de
Nemours
it
had
been
a
part
of
the
royal
property
that
was
portioned
out
to
Mesdames
de
France,
the
disagreeable
daughters
of
Louis
XV.
You
will
remember
how
disagreeable
they
were
to
Marie
Antoinette,
and
what
a
burden
they
made
her
life.
I
wish
our
house
had
belonged
to
more
romantic
people;
Madame
du
Barry
or
Madame
de
Pompadour
would
have
suited
me
better!
How
many,
many
times
we
peeped
through
the
high
iron
railing
at
this
enchanted
domain,
sleeping
like
the
castle
in
the
fairy
tale.
The
garden
was
overgrown
with
weeds
and
shrubbery,
the
house
was
shabby
and
sadly
in
need
of
paint.
We
sighed
and
thought
how
happy
would
be
our
fortune
if
we
might
some
day
penetrate
the
mysteries
of
the
tangled
garden
and
the
abandoned
villa.
Little
did
we
dream
that
this
would
one
day
be
our
home.
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