Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

was at her feet, nobles fawned npon her
 court ladies, who little time before wouli
 have scorned to receive her as guest
 offices of her toilette. She scattered goll
 most distant her cousin, aidrummer, wa
 made q captain of iiragooi,s her brother
 a man of talent, however, was made di
 rector-general of buildings, arts and man
 ufactures, and created Marquis de Van
 dieres, title afterwards changed to tha
 of Marigny.F To literary men and artists she extended the most liberal patronage
 she made Marmontel her secretary, shs
 brought Pigalle the sculptor ont of his ob scurity, and afterwards drew for him ths design for his statue of Louis XV. : sht patronized Gluck, who had failed to gaiI any attention in the Boeotian England o the first Georges, and it was under he1 auspices that his 'tOrfeo" was produced to her Montesquieu dedicated his greatest work and to her Voltaire owed his .frst introduction to court The king always disliked Voltaire he once said that he feGred him, and a breach of etiquette nearly lost the poet his newly-gained ia vOr.
 Pompadour had theatre fitted up al Versailles, of which the Duke de la Val Here was the director. the sAbbe de Ia Garde the prompter, and the lady herself the principal actress: To celebrate the tri' umph OfFontenoy, Voltaire wrote a kind o1 pageant, entitled .Le Temple de Ia Gloire, in which the parts were executed by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, inelud ing La Pompadour herself. To favor the author, she had placed him in the kings box, and on the first presentation Vol taire found himself standing immediately behind the king, who was designated in the spectacle as Trajan. When that au. gust parsonage appeared upon the scene, the poet became so excited that, in 8 transport of self graduation, he caught the real monarch in his arms, crying, ssEh, Trajan, you recognize yourself, do you not?" This daring breach of decorum caused 8 terrible commotion, the offender was removed by the guards, and would certainly have been banished had it not been for the good offices of his patroness. She afterwards conferred npon him the dignity of gentleman in ordinary of the and the post of historioeraher. Her friendship for Voltaire survived even NA1C duu 6DuB6 W1bn WHICH A6 so plentifully bespattered her during his residence at Potsdam, and she frequently with the king to allow him to return to France.t
 One of her most disinterested acts oi kindness was bestowed upon the old poet Crebillon, who was at the time eighty years of age she settled upon 0 hand some annuity, appointed him to the sine cure of librarian, which included 8 1odg- ing in the Louvre, and presented to him 6 impression of his own works, of which she herself had engraved the tail pieces. Under her reign genius of all kinds found warm welcome in the court of France.
 Not to literature and art alone did she confine her influence and her patronage. At her suggestion the great EcOle Mill taire was first founded the groves of the Champs Elysees were planted, and the trees of the boulevards, as far as the Porte St. Martin. She drew grand plan for rebuilding Paris, of which only DOT. tion was executed, but of that portion are the Place de Louis Quinze, the Place Vendome, the Madeleine, &c. But the greatest of all her works was the estab- lishment of the great Sevres manufactory. The idea was first suggested by the sight of some very beautiful specimens of DOT. celaih, brought by Charles Adams to the XIII. s time tQ intr9dqce into France the manufacture of p9rcelain, but it had sig nally failed. Under the ardent auspices of Pompadour, however, who drew with her own band, and occasionally painted some of the designs, the Sevres ware be. came the most celebrated in Europe. In all these undertakings she was ably seconded by the talents of her brother, the Marquis de Marigny. e-
 Upon hill that commanded fine view of the manufactory, of the windings o1 the Seine, of the city of Paris, and of the beautiful country around, she caused te be erected that exquisite temple of luxu- ", destroyed during the Revolution Belle Vue. Upon the erection of this building, and upon its adofnment with every beauty of art that could charm the senses, three million livres were expended Falconet, Coustan, Adam, Verbreck, Pi. galle, were the sculptors Boucher, Van. loo, Oudry, Pierre, Vernet, were the painters but all these worked under hel orders and through her inspiration. Sc interested was the king in the new build ing, that during the progress of the works he frequently remained with the workmen throughout the whole day, sometimes even taking his dinner among them !! Il was completed in the depth of winter, but even the baroness of the season was over come by the mimiery of art. The conser. vatories and rooms were filled with the rnn ncf o1~. emitted exquisite odors. So perfect was the imitation of nature, that on first see. ing them the king put his fingers to the stem of one to pluck it, and found thai those floral beauties were simply painted porcelain, into the calices of which ha6 been poured Q drop of the perfume asso ciated with the flowers represented. Il was here that La Pompadour gave hel petits sOuaoers, which consisted of never less than forty-eight different dishes. . Talking of les petits soxpers suggests { yet moro celebrated and equally splendid palace, which is yet standing, Le petii Trianon. It was here that Louis chief, loved to cast aside the restraints of royal ty, and, surrounded by ses isatin.es, tt wander through those enchanting gardens and to gather and distribute among then with his own hands the delicious fruit. and flowers that grew there, luscious a. those of Armida or, better still, to enter tain them with astronomical delicacies
 These suppers were prepared by nobl, hands alone, for in those days gastrono
 my was not only 8 science but fine art and an indispensable accomplishment fo1
 a fine gentleman. When one of thes. suppers was decided upon, his Maiest, left Versailles before midday, accompa nied by the Dues de Goutant, d'Ayen, d,
 Coigni, de Ia Valliere, the Prince de Beau
 frement, and the Marquis de Polignac
 Upon their arrival at the Little Triano,
 the cuisine was carried into the saloa. .ani
 there, assisted by the Count de Croismare
 the Chevalier de Brusse, grand equeries
 the Chevalier Saint Saveus, and the Mar
 quis de Montmorency, officers of tn
 body-guard together with four page
 who acted as under-cooks and sculIions
 the meal was 1repared. The king him
 self donned the cooks apron, and wa
 celebrated for his possEets au dasilic aalt
 eggs prepared in. different ways ]; IT. Gou
 tant was the hero of the salad, Coigni o
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