A Tour Through Some Parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany And Belgium
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I also visited Marli, which is chiefly remarkable for the machine whichraises water from the Seine to the height of five hundred feet. St. Cyrwas the retreat of Madame de Maintenon, and Malmaison was the residenceof Buonaparte, when first consul; but it is far inferior to St. Cloud. The palace of St. Germain is in a situation inferior to none I had seen. My expectations had however been particularly raised by the accounts Ihad heard of Versailles, which has at all times been the object of thead...miration of the French; and it is certainly better suited to theirideas of grandeur than to ours. This palace is about four leagues distant from Paris. The approach to ithas nothing of that magnificence that I had been led to expect, and theroad is in bad repair. On my arrival, I found it was impossible to gainadmittance into the palace, which was undergoing a thorough repair, rendered indispensable by neglect during the last twenty years. Thenumber of workmen employed is stated to amount to two thousand.
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