The Comte d'Artois is a better figure and a better dancer.

Their characters approach to those of two other royal dukes.[8] There were but eight minuets, and, except the queen and princesses, only eight lady dancers; I was not so much struck with the dancing as I expected.

For beauty I saw none, or the queen effaced all the rest.

After the minuets were French country-dances, much incumbered by the long trains, longer tresses, and hoops.

In the intervals of dancing, baskets of peaches, china oranges (a little out of season), biscuits, ices, and wine-and-water were presented to the royal family and dancers.