QUAI D’ORSAY PALACE
PREPARATION FOR BRITISH ROYAL VISIT
REVIVAL OF ANCIENT GLORIEg.
KING GEORGE TO SLEEP IN ONE OF NAPOLEON’S BEDS.
Press Ap«oeifi tinn Klect.vic —Copyright (Recd This Day, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, April 4.
An entire wing of the Quai D’Orsay Palace, built in 1845, is being converted into a suite for their Majesties’ June visit. Almost the only apartment not changed will be the gallery, where the Peace Conference was held in 1919.
The Republic is ransacking its earlier glories for furniture.
The King will sleep in one of Napoleon’s beds while one of Marie Antoinette’s is arriving from Versailles for the Queen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 7
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104QUAI D’ORSAY PALACE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 7
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