Among the changes and improvements that M. Perate, the new curator of the Chateau at Versailles, is making in the organization and working of this famous show-place—officially styled a museum but in reality something much more than that—is one that will be particularly welcome to visitors. The gates are now opened at 10 a.m. and admittance can be had from that hour until 4 p.m. iastead of only in the afternoon as hitherto. The two Trianons now open at 11.30 and close at 4. Moreover, visitors to the Trianons can now wander at will through the public rooms instead of being escorted in parties by the attendants, the only exceptions to this new system being in the case of the stables and a few apartments which are more or less furnished.
Inside the palace a good many additions to its art treasures will be seen. From the Louvre several portraits of painters have been sent to hang in rooms decorated with paintings from their brushes, such as Rigaud, Lebrun, Largilliére and other Court portraitists who worked at Versailles in the grand siecle. Other additions are recent acquisitions, notably a small portrait of Mme. Compan, reader to Marie Antoinette, and two very interesting pictures, engrave ings of which are to be seen all over France, representing Louis XVI's farewell to his family and his execution.
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