At noon the women who had been in attendance four and twenty hours were relieved by two women in full dress; the first woman went also to dress herself.

The grandee entrees were admitted during the toilet; sofas were placed in circles for the superintendent, the ladies of honour, and tirewomen, and the governess of the children of France when she came there; the duties of the ladies of the bedchamber, having nothing to do with any kind of domestic or private functions, did not begin until the hour of going out to mass; they waited in the great closet, and entered when the toilet was over.

The Princes of the blood, captains of the Guards, and all great officers having the entry paid their court at the hour of the toilet.

The Queen saluted by nodding her head or bending her body, or leaning upon her toilet-table as if moving to rise; the last mode of salutation was for the Princes of the blood.

The King's brothers also came very generally to pay their respects to her Majesty while her hair was being dressed.