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historic houses; that in the Billiard Room from a chateau — and the Boudoir from the hétel of the Maréchal de Richeli the great Cardinal, and which has now been transformed Room came from the Convent of the Sacré Coeur, former! on the guillotine; and the Tower Room from a villa which Général Beaujon, to whom the Elysée also belonged. The ornamental ceilings are either exact replicas of taken, or copied from ones still in existence in Paris. for which they were made; the one in the East Gallery celebrated banker, Samuel Bernhard. The modern mantel-p I have refrained from going into an elaborate descriptic are photographed in this album, as it would be as tiresome their pedigrees are of unimpeachable authenticity. In my severely, but experience taught me caution, and from the ti have only acquired works of art the genuineness of which ha My grateful thanks are due to those who from first to I: have remembered me kindly. M. Destailleur was entrusted her house and church at Farnborough, and M. Lainé by th his estates. These commissions they owed—the former indir have nothing to say but praise. Still, I may be pardoned for of the park; the pleasure grounds and gardens were laid notions and under my superintendence; while all the farm bt a local architect, Mr. Taylor, of Bierton. fe)