43^ PALAIS ROYAL. 



lightened by a cupola. By this the entrance is to be 

 into the apartments of the dutchefs of Orleans, and 

 from thence into a fpacious gallery ; where the paint- 

 ings that now are difperfed about the walls are to be 

 hung up together. This gallery is to extend along the 

 whole of the fourth wing, fifty toifes in length, and 

 over it a quadrangular turret, refling on fix rows of 

 doric columns, is to rife majeftically above it; which 

 gallery is to form a public promenade. The plan 

 of -this difpofition has been long ready ; and, notwith- 

 ftanding the diflurbances that have iince arifen, the 

 works preparatory to the execution of it do not Hop. 



At prefent, as this court is not built upon, it has 

 ft ill a defolate appearance. On the left hand, within 

 it, are feen Hones lying upon Hones, and a fwarm of 

 workmen employed upon them. Before thefe, crofs- 

 wife, runs a wooden platform, which is to be made 

 into Hi ops of every kind, and ere we can arrive at 

 them, we have to prefs through a wildernefs of ftalls, 

 where pamphlets, flowers, and paflry, are fold. On 

 the right hand Hand remifes and coaches crouded to- 

 gether, fo that one is obliged to Hoop under the heads 

 of the horfes, and to be always in expectation that two 

 or three of them are going to drive out furioufiy to take 

 up their company. Behind thefe, at the foot of the 

 palace are fhops for bookfellers, picture-dealers, &c. 

 which take up all the trottoirs, and in front of which 

 are conHantly Handing troops of gazers. Here likewife 

 are plenty of fhoe-cleaners with their Hools and kettles, 

 to put you in mind that you are going to enter the 

 cleaner part of this inchanted caHle. 



Into this we now proceed through the pafTage made 

 by the above -mentioned platform. We are now in the 



garden 



