The Dauphiness acquitted herself in some characters with discrimination and feeling.

The chief pleasure of this amusement consisted in all the costumes being elegant and accurate.

The Dauphin entered into the spirit of these diversions, and laughed heartily at the comic characters as they came on the scene; from these amusements may be dated his discontinuance of the timid manner of his youth, and his taking pleasure in the society of the Dauphiness.
It was not till a long time afterwards that I learnt these particulars, M.
Campan having kept the secret; but an unforeseen event had well-nigh exposed the whole mystery.

One day the Queen desired M.Campan to go down into her closet to fetch something that she had forgotten; he was dressed for the character of Crispin, and was rouged.

A private staircase led direct to the entresol through the dressing-room.