also red picked out with gold, the legs being term-shaped. These were covered with red damask, having a design of crowns and gold and silver flowers. The cabinet contained a _lit de repos_, four _fauteuils_ and four folding-stools, all upholstered in red velvet ornamented with gold braid and gold fringe. The window curtains were of white damask, trimmed with gold fringe. In this room were also two _bureaux_ of marquetry, and a small walnut table, 27 inches long by 17 wide, standing on four turned pillars. The cover for this was green serge bordered with an aurora-coloured braid. Having seen the apartments of the Duke of Orleans at Versailles, let us look at those of the Duchess there in the same year (1708). The antechamber was rich with a “set of tapestry hangings,”—gilt leather on a white background; and here were also represented festoons of fruits and garlands of flowers in red, green and gold. It was, moreover, enriched with figures of Bacchus, women, children, harpies and gold birds. The entire room was hung with this (18⅓ ells being required to cover the walls, and 3½ ells were required for the space above the mantel). The furniture included an eight-leaved screen 7 feet high, two forms covered with red flowered moquette, a folding-stool with painted red frame and covered with red linen, and a couch. The chamber was furnished with a bed, four _fauteuils_, four chairs with backs, six folding-seats, twelve _tabourets_, a bureau-table, two tables and a screen. The bed was superb. It was 6 feet wide, 6 feet, 9 inches long and 11 feet high. It was mi-party (i. e., divided half and half), of red damask and gold _moiré_, lined with white _moiré_ and trimmed on the seams and all around the base and top of both valances and curtains with gold braid and gold fringe. The three outside top valances, three lower valances, two _bonnes grâces_, two _cantonnières_ and four curtains were of the red and gold _moiré_; the headboard, four interior valances, _courtepointe_ and sheaths of the bed-posts were of silver _moiré_; the four _pommes_ of red damask and gold _moiré_ carried bunches of white feathers with aigrettes. The _fauteuils_, chairs and folding-seats were of gilded wood, covered with gold _moiré_, trimmed with a band of crimson damask, edged with gold braid and gold fringe. The frames of the _tabourets_ were painted red; the covers were red velvet, trimmed with red silk braid. There were two covers for the walnut bureau-table: one of red damask and gold _moiré_, trimmed with gold braid and fringe; the other of red leather, lined with taffeta and trimmed with a gold braid and gold fringe. The frame of the screen was gilded wood. It was covered with red damask, ornamented with narrow gold braid. The windows were draped in white damask, trimmed with gold fringe. Each curtain was 4⅓ ells long and contained six lengths of material. The cord for the chandelier was of gold and silver and red silk.