Capitolo 49
of France.
The young king was, as already eight years you/he/she has been said old verse
to the duration of Prince Charles' arrival. The building where he resided
when in the city the Building was Real that it was then and you/he/she has been
since then, one of the most famous buildings in the world. It was
built to an enormous expense, during a preceding kingdom from a powerful person
minister of state that was in ecclesiastical line, a cardinal, and
its mansion had called, accordingly, the Cardinal Building. It had,
recently takes however as a real residence, and its name changed
to Royal Building. Here the regent of queen had his/her great apartments of
you affirm, every thing that is as rich as the most prodigal expense it was able
do him/it. You had an apartment, he/she called an oratory a kind of closet,
for prayer that was illuminated by a great window the loom of what it was
silver fact. The inside of the room was adorned more anymore with the
expensive paintings and furniture, and you/he/she had enriched with a profusion of
silver and gold. The small king also had his/her series of apartments, with
a whole family of officers and companions no more than him.
These children were continually busy with ceremonies, and parades,
and you protect military and pretenses in which they showed up in arm of miniature and
badges of authority, and with suits to imitate indeed those of did
monarchs and ministers of state. Every thing was regulated with the
maximum respect to label and punctilio, and without any limits or
you confine to the expense. This way, although the young officers of the small one
the family of monarch didn't practice true power, they exposed all the
forms and aspects of the royalty with more than usual pomp and the shine.
It was a kind of the play of child, it is true, but probably it was the
the play greatest and magnificent child that the world it ever has
testified. It was in this extraordinary scene that the Prince Charles
you are found introduced on his/her arrival in France.