They found long rooms, vast garrets with filthy walls and low ceilings, furnished with wooden tables and benches.
These were the "apartments." These garrets, which adjoin each other, all open on the same corridor, a narrow passage, which runs the length of the main building.

In one of these rooms they saw, thrown into a corner, side-drums, a big drum, and various instruments of military music.

The Representatives scattered themselves about in these rooms.

M.de Tocqueville, who was ill, threw his overcoat on the floor in the recess of a window, and lay down.

He remained thus stretched upon the ground for several hours.
These rooms were warmed very badly by cast-iron stoves, shaped like hives.