Another, was of green velvet ornamented with gold and silver lace and fringes of green silk covered with _crespines_ of gold and silver; the headboard was of cloth-of-gold-and-silver ornamented with green silk fringe; the lower valance was trimmed with gold and silver braid and a fringe of violet silk covered with a fringe of gold and silver. The curtains were green damask trimmed with gold and silver braid and silk fringe, and the ornamental counterpane of green taffeta trimmed with fringes of silk and gold. Another bed was of cloth-of-gold striped with black and crimson satin; the curtains were flesh-coloured taffeta ornamented with crimson fringe. The bed-posts, as we have noted, are always surmounted by ornaments, known, no matter what their form may be, as “_pommes de lit_.” The following kinds are mentioned in the inventory of the Château de Turenne in 1615: “Four _pommes de lit_ of wood covered with crimson velvet ornamented with gold and silver braid and garnished with bouquets of gold and silver and varied coloured silks and little _egrettes_ of gold and silver; four wooden _pommes de lit_ covered with cloth-of-silver and green trimmed with gold lace, belonging to the bed of green velvet on a gold background; four _pommes de lit_ covered with crimson velvet trimmed with gold and silver lace and three grey plumes, belonging to the crimson velvet bed; four _pommes de lit_ of wood painted violet and gold, belonging to the violet velvet bed; twenty-eight _pommes de lit_ of gilded wood belonging to various beds, and twelve _pommes de lit_.” Another bed that is characteristic of this period was the _lit de baldaquin_. This is a bed with daïs of three sides. Its framework was of natural wood, or wood carved and gilded, or covered with some rich material. This bed that dismisses the columns or posts, was introduced during this reign and carried into the next one. The _baldaquin_, which replaces the canopy supported by posts, must be slightly smaller than the bed it overshadows. Sometimes it is equipped with an arch that is covered with the same material as the general drapery of the bed, and this arch, which may be found in the old designs, following the curved movement of the baldaquin is sometimes surmounted with a bunch of feathers. When this arch contains a dome that surmounts the baldaquin, it is called the “_Lit Impérial_.” A _lit à impériale_ of the period was one of green velvet and gold and silver, trimmed with a gold and silver _crespine_ and a little green silk fringe covered with a gold and silver fringe. The curtains were of green damask trimmed with gold and silver braid. Another was of cloth of gold and yellow damask in squares with bands of white damask and a deep fringe of white and blue. The valance was composed of squares, but the head-board was in lengths.