On 30 th October , a single blue and white commode was delivered followed by a blue and white encoignure on January 29 th Both of these pieces are now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The second part of his order for her Salon was abruptly cancelled as a result of her fall from grace as the mistress of the King.
She too died young in December The King was heartbroken but found the usual intrigues of his aristocratic mistresses in seeking wealth and power tiresome. It was assumed that he would take on the fourth sister, Madame de Lauragais. While he liked her company, it was not to be and nor would he go back to M. In February of , to celebrate the marriage of the Dauphin a whole series of masked balls was organised.
The King thus knew her by sight from as she had caught his attention in by driving her phaeton in front of him while the King was hunting in the forest of Senart.
The commodes must have already been ordered by the King but not delivered as they have to date before April of , because the bronzes do not bear the crowned C mark.
This somewhat unworkable tax on all metal objects, including pieces in for repairs, was passed by an edict of the Parlement in March of ; it was revoked in February In she re-decorated the apartment and split into two the very large room that the commodes had probably been living in. It has been called that ever since. Some interiors remain to this day, but the Salon Bleu contains only one mirrored boiserie in the rococo manner and is described in the Monuments Historiques dossier as originally blue and white.
