vivelareine: I went early in the morning to visit the queen’s Little Trianon. What a charming
vivelareine: I went early in the morning to visit the queen’s Little Trianon. What a charming promenade! How delicious were the glades, perfumed with lilacs and people with nightingales! The weather was magnificent; the air was full of fragrant mist; butterflies spread their golden wings beneath the rays of the spring sun. I have never passed more delightful moments than the three hours spent in visiting that retreat.–Henriette Waldner de Freunstein, baronne d'Oberkirch; Mémoires, 1785-1789. -- source link