Versailles Scandals.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 272, 21 November 1904, Page 3

Versailles Scandals.

The grounds of. the Palace Versailles have recently been the scene of a most reniarka'bile scandal, about which there is a great outcry in the district. By some influence, a firm of biograph or cinematograph lnanuiacturers managed to secure permission to openate in the palace grounds On Friday morning the party arrived, with a hundred supu.'iiumeraries dressed in costumes of the time of Louis XV. The gates were closed ■'o that the public should not know what was going on. Some of the ancient Louis carriages bad been U'ouig.lvt from his Trianon for the puipose ol the masquerade, a,(KI, with the Palace a s a background, a scene rejjresensting Louis XV. and his courtiers watching a ballet or divertissement was cinemaitiKgraphed. To add to the effect, the magnificent tountams which are only allowed to play on special occasions, were set to work.

The party then proceeded to the famous Colonnade Grove. In the beautiful marble bath with its fountains a number of women in (i le scantiest costume were cinomatographed as a groupe repi'tsL-iKiiig I'rosperme being carried alt by l'luto Ilia women representing water n.ymphs. ■Next they proceeded to the spot r-nown as Apollo's liatli, and here a scene ol scandalous character, supposed to have taken place j n the presence of Louis XV. consisting of (lie duels louglit between women w a s proce^ n k ? a r "' " mil 4 during which tune the public were ex _ Uuded iron, the palace. At four cloc . k tiu ' """ley company of costumed people returned to Paris. The ailair has .caused considerable toni■.°t.onat Versailles, but the curator he , ,i mU9UUm m,d U,L ' of he palace were powerless to in.erheh Z'7 reC r, iVOd I "' <le, ' s fro »> * n'fch State ollicial. Inquiry was benefit 'V " n- U "i Colommde «»d is hand Ij- >ik^ ,C boX,ftvr-the that tt Wioiio's Iln'i'l tlle Col ° muui i-> and ,/ii r h are intended for the education of children.