The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-15
ANNA eoULD'S DREAM.
COUNTESS CASTEILaNE,S PLANS
FOR A PARTISAN PALACE.
Like the Grand Trianon-MIIIIons
May BE Spent TO Equip Her as "A
Social Queen-Edwin Gould Watt

May BE Spent TO Equip Her as "A
Social Queen-Edwin Gould Wait
ing for News.
From the New York Advertiser.
Edwin Gould. the only member OF the
Gould family who is in America at the
present time, practically confirmed to-
day the cable reports that his sister. the
Countess of CasteIlane, nee Miss Anna
Gould, intended reproducing the Grand
Trianon Of Versailles for her Paris resi-
dence.
Mr. Gould lives at DObbs Ferry, y. Y.
He did not visit the city to-day but he
said that while he could not give any
information other than that contained in
the cable dispatches. he believed that his
sister intended building a home in Paris.
and that the reports were probably cor.
rect.
MT Gould knew nothing of the reports
that the reproduction of the Grand Tri-
anon for his sisters residence had been
her life dream. and closed the CONVEX
sation by saying that he hoped to have
more definite news soon.
The cable announces that the Countess
Castellane has just bought the site at the
corner OF Avenue Du Bots de Boulogne
ana the Avenue de Malakoff, in Paris for
the erection Of the palace
me estimated cost Of this new residence
Is not given, but il is estimated at any
figure from 100000 to S.. O00OO.
This slender American girl scarcely out
OF her teens, who left the schoolroom for
the altar and an exalted social position
evidently intends reigning in Paris in no
true.
The original Grand Trianon was built in
1868 by Louis the Grand. 1t was finished
almost at the same time that Versailles
was finished. 1t is about three-quarters Of
a nllle from the palace proper. Many writ
ers dellcately say that Ii was built by
LOUIS as retreat whittier he could 90 for
solitude when weary of the splendors Of
the court Saint Simon describes IL as a
mouse of porcelain TO lunch in (naison de
porcelaine aler faire des collationsD The
decorations resembled Chinese porcelain
and 1t was we'll named. But this villa, as II
was called, was destroyed in 1887 and in its
place was built the present Grand TrainOn
Tor Nine. de Maintenon, after plans by
Mansard. The palace is a long building
I with two wings. with a magnificent peril
style overlooking a court of honor. The
general architecture is described as simple
and majestic The years have not des-
troyed the splendor OF its columns and ia
cades, and the beautiful lines of its arcades
nor have they destroyed the charming eff
feet of the white stone. Louis Philippe
added a gallery to the original building
and the French writers say that it added
much.
II was from this building that Nine. de
| Maintenon. whom the king afterward mar
ried ruled the whole kingdom of France.
| Many of its noble apartments have few
equals. The very smallest of the rooms
are large compared with modern ones. The
Salon des Graces is famous, the elegance
and richness of the decorations and the
mirrors making 1t stand out in that place
of marvellous apartments. The room next
to 1t. which the old king occupied as
bed-chamber is very richly furnished. It
may have been in this room that his males
~ made so many changes OF his wigs. The
Countess of Casteliane viii not need cab
met des Derruques. Nor is 1t likely that
she will use the room next TO 1t as a chapel
the use for which IT was originally in
tended.
The vestibule. which is next to the peri
style. is a very splendid room. During
the time of the Great Monarch ii was the
in the great apartment are very simple
and very elegant. The crystal chandelier
/ is of great beauty, and il viii take many
of the late Mr.. Gould's American dollars
to reproduce them
The apartments on the other side were
given over to living rooms for the mos t
| part The Countess OF Castellane Will I'M
| doutedly have the billiard room or music
| room-H was used for other purposes 1t
! different times-the malachite room, and
| the grand gallery, but even her wealth
| cannot enable her to buy the works of art
| that they contain.
| 1t will be interesting to know what part
| of her new home she will occupy for her.
self. There are three rooms in the wing,
very gorgeOusly decorated and furnished,
which were the private rooms of Louis
XIV, and where Queen Victoria lived for
a little while There are also the rooms of
the Maintenon, which have the gorgeous
ness BETTING the living place of the faV-
orite of the king. Louis XIV also lived in
them before he moved over to the Petit
Trianoh to be nearer the Du Barry and her
successor, the Pompadour.
1t may be said that the youthful count
will take to himself those rooms the orig
inal of which were the bedchamber and
study of the first Napoleon. 1t was in one
of these rooms, the smallest in the palace,
that the emperor planned some of the bold
est strokes that made him famous. But 1t
may be said that the young counts roy
alist blood will rebel against even a proxy
touch with the Napoleon The gardens of
the Grand Trianon are in a shameful state
of neglect. They were once very beauti-
full The Countess of Castelane purposes
having elaborate gardens about her new
home Those of Versailles are famous.
It's fountains are unequalled. Some of
them spout water over seventy feet in the
air. 1t costs 5000 to have them display for
twenty minutes.