A ROYAL RETREAT.
PALACE OF FONTAINBLEAU. GREAT MEN DESIGNERS. Fontainebleau, where, it is reported, the Spanish Royal Family are going for a time, combines the grandeur of princes with tho simplicities of nature, wo aro told. The palace at Fontainebleau is one of the most glorious buildings in Europe, and, looking at its perfect mellow brick walls and grey slato roofs, one is surprised to remember that it is about four hundred years old. Its rooms were designed by great men for great men at a time when royal personages vied with each other in their splendid habits of living. The palace has been associated with the Kings of France since the davs of Francis I. One of tho most popular relics to be seen in a show-case is the hat of Napoleon 1., the famous black hat which appears in so many pictures of tho Emperor. After looking at the royal chambers, it is an amusing experience to proceed to the ornamental lake and feed the carp with bread sold for tho purpose. Some of these fish aro enormous and very old, and they seem to rise in a leisurely and aristocractic way to the crumbs cast on tho waters by curious tourists. All round the palace the forest stretches for many square miles, an almost waterless tract.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20898, 13 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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219A ROYAL RETREAT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20898, 13 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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