1st Duc de Bassano et al. in Palace of Fontainebleau - 30 September, 1834
from Diary of Mary Berry, 30 September 1834, pages 425–426:
When dinner was announced, I fell to the lot of the Duc de Bassano; Pozzo led the Queen; the King, as usual, his sister; and the Princesses, following the Queen, placed themselves one on her side of the table, and the other on the left hand of the King, opposite. After a walk of above five minutes, we found ourselves in the enormously long Galerie de Diane, with upwards of a hundred persons at table, magnificently and much lighted; a band of music playing from time to time, and remarkably well waited on by a whole troop of servants—an upper order of valet de pied, … more >>
Mary Berry, Diary of Mary Berry, 30 September 1834. In Lady Theresa Lewis, Lady Theresa Lewis and Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852, volume 3 (London, 1865), p. 425–426. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1542998105131 accessed: 10 November, 2024
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Date/Time | 30 September, 1834 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |