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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Our
house
had
always
been
called
"Villa
Trianon,"
and
so
we
kept
the
name,
but
it
should
not
be
confused
with
the
Grand
Trianon
or
the
Petit
Trianon.
Of
course
everyone
knows
about
the
Park
at
Versailles,
but
everyone
forgets,
so
I
shall
review
the
history
of
the
Park
briefly,
that
you
may
appreciate
our
thrills
when
we
really
owned
a
bit
of
it.
Louis
XIV
selected
Versailles
as
the
site
for
the
royal
palace
when
it
was
a
swampy,
uninteresting
little
farm.
Louis
XIII
had
built
a
château
there
in
1627,
but
had
done
little
to
beautify
the
flat
acres
surrounding
it.
Louis
the
Magnificent
lavished
fortunes
on
the
laying
out
of
his
new
park.
The
Grand
Trianon
was
built
for
Madame
de
Main
tenon
in
1685,
and
from
this
time
on,
for
a
full
century,
the
Park
of
Versailles
was
the
most
famous
royal
residence
in
the
world.
The
Petit
Trianon
was
built
by
Louis
XV
for
Madame
du
Barry.
Later,
during
the
reign
of
Louis
XVI,
Marie
Antoinette,
who
was
then
Queen,
tiring
of
court
etiquette
and
scorning
the
stately
rooms
of
Versailles,
persuaded
her
husband
to
make
over
to
her
the
Petit
Trianon.
Here
she
built
a
number
of
little
rustic
cottages,
where
she
and
the
ladies
of
her
court,
dressed
in
calicoes,
played
at
being
milkmaids.
They
had
a
little
cottage
called
the
"Laiterie,"
where
the
white
cows
with
their
gilded
horns
were
brought
in
to
be
milked.
Here,
too,
little
plays
were
presented
in
a
tiny
theater
where
only
the
members
of
the
court
were
admitted.
The
Queen
and
her
brother,
Comte
de
Provence,
were
always
the
chief
actors.
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