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Excerpt from A New Guide to the Museum, Palace and Gardens of Versailles: Being an Exact Description Drawn Up by Galleries, Apartments and Numbers, of the Paintings, Portraits and Sculptures of the Palace, Its Yards and Gardens, Comprising the New Galleries of the Crusades, and of Constantine
Having entered the court you will recognize the Bridge statues which were once placed on the Pout de la Concorde at Paris, to which have been added since their transposition to Versailles, four others; and in the midst ol'them the mn'estic equestrian statue in bronze of lewi XIV, placed there as if to do the honours oi'the most magnifi cent sanctuary of monarchy.
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