He spent a few days there several times in the year.

It was when he was setting off from Versailles for Petit Trianon that he was struck in the side by the knife of Damiens, and it was there that he was attacked by the smallpox, of which he died on the 10th of May, 1774 .-- MADAME CAMPAN.] Henceforward she amused herself with improving the gardens, without allowing any addition to the building, or any change in the furniture, which was very shabby, and remained, in 1789, in the same state as during the reign of Louis XV.

Everything there, without exception, was preserved; and the Queen slept in a faded bed, which had been used by the Comtesse du Barry.

The charge of extravagance, generally made against the Queen, is the most unaccountable of all the popular errors respecting her character.

She had exactly the contrary failing; and I could prove that she often carried her economy to a degree of parsimony actually blamable, especially in a sovereign.