In the course of a visit paid to Paris by a number of organists from Alsace and Lorraine, Widor, the foremost French composer and executant of organ music, [played to them on an historic i strument, known as Marie Antoi nette's organ, now in St. Sulpice Church, Its "case is white, with very simple Wut elegant decoration surmounted by two doves. holding a lyre. It was=discovered lnbout 40 years ago on the promises of Versailles dealer in antiquities, and was identified as having originally stood in the small theatre of the Trianon, where the ill-fated queen and her court, varied the pleasures of the simple life in the adjoining artificial hamlet by performing operatic works of the period, Wh the revolutionary storm swept the court away, the organ was appro-Priated by one of the new asters, and remained in oblivion for neatly a century. Its mechanism was in wonderfully good condition, and, after being provided with new bellows and otherwise patched up, it was made fit for service again, and is now used during catechism classes side chapel at St, Sulpiee.
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