The forms, colours, and styles of the beds in use during the Louis XVI. period may be gathered from the following list: _lit à housse_, crimson velvet, trimmed and embroidered with gold, Maréchal Duc d’Estrées, 1771; _lit à la polonaise_, blue damask and _moiré_, Boucher (the painter), 1771; _lit à housse_, green damask, Madame Favart, 1772; bed of embroidered muslin, the Duc de Bouillon, 1772; _lit de Perse_, white background with various cut-out decorations, Duchesse de Brissac, 1773; bed of Indian damask, Chevalier d’Hestin, 1775; crimson velvet with gold braid, Duke of Saint-Aignan, 1776; yellow satin embroidered with gold flowers, Marquise de Courcillon, 1777; Indian damask, Mme. le president Talon, 1779; bright yellow damask (worth 24,000 _livres_), unknown, 1779; crimson damask, Marquise de Saint Georges, 1779; and crimson and white _moiré_, la Comtesse de Bérulle, 1779. In 1780, crimson seems to be the favourite hue, but there are also fine beds of blue and white damask, crimson and white brocade, and yellow damask, and in 1781–1782, yellow and white damask, green damask, blue damask, blue and white watered silk, blue and white brocade, Persian, tapestry and blue satin embroidered with gold and silk. Yellow camlet and damask in three colours occur in 1784, and in 1787 Oriental stuffs and imitations of them are the rage. In 1787, the Marquis de Ménars had a beautiful bed of embroidered blue _moiré_; the Duc d’Orléans, a _lit à la duchesse_ of flowered silver velvet, trimmed with gold braid and fringes; and the financier, Beaujon, a large canopy bed hung with Gobelin tapestries. In addition to these, we may call attention to the following folding-beds: a “_lit d’ante-chambre_ in the form of a secretary” was offered at the sale of the Marquise de Vigean’s effects in 1783; and at the sale of Mme. Le Gros’s articles in 1784 “a bed of crimson damask enclosed in an _armoire en secrétaire_.” A French newspaper also offered for sale in 1785 “a pretty bed enclosed in a secretary made of mahogany with trimmings of gilded _or moulu_, 7 feet high and 3½ feet wide, proper for both city and country”; and four years earlier a “bed in the form of a commode and garnished with copper” was also offered for sale. The lower drawing on Plate XLIV. represents a _lit de repos_, or “_causerie_,” such as was used at Trianon. The wood is walnut, gilded all over. A carved garland of flowers decorated the top of the head and foot-board, and the grooved columns are surmounted by a carved pineapple. The drapery is a light Florentine silk, green in hue, trimmed with cords and tassels and fringe of white, green and pink. The bed on Plate XLV. is from a water-colour design by Rousseau de la Rottière.