The Palace consists of a great central portion, and two huge wings. In front the spacious Place darmes is railed off from the Court @'Honueur. In th are colossal statues of French worthies Bertrand clu Guesclin, Bayard, Sully, C: dinal Richelieu, Turenne, Conde, Colbert, Duquesne and' others, with an equestrian statue of Louis Quatorze in the middle.
The north wing contains the richly decorated chapel and the theatre. This theatre was built by Louis Quinze for Madame de Pompadour.
The art collections of Versailles are of vast extent, and of very unequal merit; it is impossible to sce them all at one visit. Phe best pictures are by modern painters, David, Horace Vernet, Ary Sehetter, Dela-croix, Delaoche, Phillippoteaux, and others.
Besides the chapel and the theatre, the ground floor of the north wing contains a vestibule and eleven rooms full of pictures representing historical events from the 8th te the 18th century: the long Galerie des Tombeaux is filled with casts of sepulebres and other monuments. There are also five richly adorned saloons called the Salles des Croissudes; they contain some remarkable modern pictures of scenes connected with the Crusades. Phere are seven rooms of paintings, in the North wing, on the first floor, called the Galerie de Constantine, and among them ave some fine battle-pieces by Horace Vernet; there is also a sculpture gallery, and there are ten more rooms full of pictures, chiefly relating to the early part of this century, There are many wore rooms filled with portraits, medals, casts, ete., but the Palace is so full of all these so-called art-iveasures, that it seems doubtful whether anyone ever had the courage and perseverance needed to do justice to them all. The
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