The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-10

fore the great revolution, acceded to
Dy the Empress Josephine, continued
under the restoration, maintained by
the Princes, of the house of Orleans,
and kept up with great spirit under
the present reign.
A long gallery which runs along the
basement story of the palace, looking
into the garden, just opposite the
Prince ImperiaIs winter walk, is
fitted up from one end to the other
with oak wardrobes. This is ono
called de frogue of the palace. It is
here that the refuse dresses and cast
Oft apparel of the royal and imperial
Ladies, who have succeeded each other
for the hundred years in occupation
OF the Tuileries, are invariably borne
when rejected from the floor above.
The wardrobe cupboards, numerous
and extensive as they are, get general
ly well filed during the year, and
when the four seasons are considered
thoroughly over, Il sale is made of the
whole, where every article is priced
beforehand, and visitors are admitted
to view and purchase without the OBJ
servance of further ceremony than
the presentation of az invitation care!
from her Ninjesty's attendants. to
whom the privilege of granting tlem
belongs.
The sale is called in the present
day the '.Detour de Compeigne, but
has been known under other names
during former reigns Sacrifice de
Fontainebleau,' {" Caprices de St.
Cloud, 'Joles de In Malmaison''-
according to the place whence the
court returned to spen0 the winter in
Paris, and which have varied with
every sovereign. The sale of the regal
wardrobe of the Tuile,-ies is conducted
on the strictest principle of equity.
Shutters OF the long gallery ure
closed, and it is lighted up from one
end to the other by lamps and can
deiabra, SO that the light is stronger
than it would be were daylight ad-
m1tted, as the ceiling is low and the
windows sunk deep into the wall.
Every article is ticketed, and, of
course, no deviation from the original
decision can possibly be allowed.
A long line of stretchers are placed
all down the middle OF the gar,.rv
the doors Of the wartlrc'-. ~, eitbs,.
side are 1lung open, and the visitor,
walking slowly down on one side and
returning by the other, makes choice
of what may suit her taste, and in
scribing the number it bears on a
card, hands the latter to the attendant
in waiting at the door and departs.
The stretehers are occupied by the
shawls, the wardrobes by the dresses,
the shelves by the under linen, while
a sort of counter at the further end of
the gallery is filed with the cham
plgnons, on which are exhibited the
bonnets and head-dresses, the white
satin dress, most splendidly embroi-
dered in silver, with the tunic of
bouil2onee gauze. and the silver nouches
confined by bands of ponceau velvet,
IN which her majesty went to the
opera with the king consort of Spain,
was not quoted higher than the nan
keen-colored dress and jacket, braided
III green, which was recognized as the
uniform invented by the empress for
the drives at Fontaincbleau.
10 be sure, the buttons were of
malachite, and set in gold, but the
material of the dress could scarcely
be c~nsidered as bearing any value
whatever. The shawls were princi-
pally of French manufacture, and
mostly for summer wear the cloaks
and mantles, deprived of their lace or
FUR, were unattractive The utmost
exaggeration seems to exist upon the
prices put upon the bonnets.
In the first place, the article itself
Is out of fashion almost rs soon as
seen in the next, it possesses no re-
source whatever and, above all, it is
liable to greater deterioration than
the dress. The habit of leaning back
in the carriage, which has become 80
general, destroys the bonnet immedi-
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