One of his Majesty's maitres d'hotel, wearing his hat, sat as president and did the honours of the table.

The public were admitted, and numbers of people had the curiosity to go.
The Garden-du-Corps obtained the King's permission to give the Queen a dress ball in the great hall of the Opera at Versailles.

Her Majesty opened the ball in a minuet with a private selected by the corps, to whom the King granted the baton of an exempt.

The fete was most splendid.

All then was joy, happiness, and peace.
The Dauphin was a year old when the Prince de Guemenee's bankruptcy compelled the Princess, his wife, who was governess to the children of France, to resign her situation.
The Queen was at La Muette for the inoculation of her daughter.