They almost all determined to see Petit Trianon.

The extreme plainness of the retreat in question not answering the ideas they had formed, some of them insisted upon seeing the very smallest closets, saying that the richly furnished apartments were concealed from them.

They particularised one which, according to them, was ornamented with diamonds, and with wreathed columns studded with sapphires and rubies.

The Queen could not get these foolish ideas out of her mind, and spoke to the King on the subject.

From the description given of this room by the deputies to the keepers of Trianon, the King concluded that they were looking for the scene enriched with paste ornaments, made in the reign of Louis XV.
for the theatre of Fontainebleau.
The King supposed that his Body Guards, on their return to the country, after their quarterly duty at Court, related what they had seen, and that their exaggerated accounts, being repeated, became at last totally perverted.