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Out here at Fontainebleau, 37 miles southeast of Paris, the country seat of the old French kings is full of interesting associations. For seven hundred years royal men and women and their noble guests walked about the rooms and halls—an accurate set of the great palace would take the measure of all the rooms in any complete, utter luxury.
This is one of the royal bedchambers. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown—to see the bed where a troubled court must have found rest for many hundred years. In spite of all the bravery of crimson and gold, of brocades and tapestries and carving and panels of fine old oak, it took a vivid imagination to dream of slumber amid all hangers of tapestry under the shadow of St. Denis. It seems little wonder that Catherine de Medici could never sleep in peace after the unspeakable horrors of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew of the long agony of her son and the loss of her kingdom.
She was queen and later the mistress of royal power. She never during the anguish of her rule was more keenly hated than beloved.
Many rulers of France, among them Henry IV and Louis XIV, slept under this ceiling of carving and flanking.
The histories of France and histories of Europe during the Thirty Years\' War, encyclopedias are rich in these subjects and on Fontainebleau, Comte De Guiche, etc.
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