Excerpt from The French Revolution, Vol. 4 of 4 A courier had been despatched in hot haste from Versailles to Paris to let the Sieur Nique, inspecting architect of the Palace Of the Tuileries, know that the King was on his way to the capital, and that his residence must be ready on his arrival to receive him and all the following essential to royalty. It is indeed quite believable that in all bewildered Paris no man was more bewildered than the Sieur Nique, no man so bewildered. For he was suddenly called upon to essay a new labour of Hercules, compared with which the cleansing of the Augean stables was, as who should say, an interlude. The old dwelling of Catherine de' Medici had become a kind of human rabbit warren. It was not in those days a very royal looking building, and royalty had been so long dis associated with it that the general public had almost ceased to think of it as the habitation of kings. On the side of the Carrousel it was so huddled away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.