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underlined: Court, Joseph Désiré; born at Rouen, Sept. 11, 1798, died there, Jan. 23, 1865. Genre painter, pupil of Gros; won the grand prix de Rome in 1821. Medals: 1st Class, 1831; 2nd Class, 1835; Badge of Honor, 1838. Works: "Samson delivered to the Philistines" strikethrough: (1891) (1821); "Deluge," "Faun in a Bath" "Dragging in a Girl," "Death of Caesar" (1824), Louvre; 'St. Peter sent by the Romans to Jerusalem" (1836); "Duc d'Orleans as Lieut. General (1836), Versailles; "Return of St. Louis" (1841); "King Giving Colors to the National Guard Aug. 24, 1830" - Versailles; "Flight of Governor of Constantine" (1839); "Duc d'Orleans laying the First Stone of the Agen Canal" (1844). Among his many portraits are these of Mone. Adelaide, strikethrough: d and the Prince de Joinville, the King and Queen of Denmark, strikethrough: Duk Duc Decages?, Monsignor Sibour and Pope Pius IX (1855).

underlined: Versailles: x Next follows a saloon, formerly called the Salle des Cent Suisses, and now Salle de 1792. It is now one of the most interesting apartments of the palace, containing portraits of all the great military characters of the revolution of 1798, and many in