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liked to devote herself to stage plays. She had an absurd academy of
music, copied after that of France. In 1700 a Frenchman, named
Foretroche, wanted to build a royal circus at Paris, at a cost of
4
00,000 francs, which scheme was opposed by D'Argenson. This Forteroche
passed into England, and proposed to Queen Anne, who was immediately
charmed by the idea, to build in London a theatre with machinery, with a
fourth under-stage finer than that of the King of France. Like Louis
XIV., she liked to be driven at a gallop. Her teams and relays would
sometimes do the distance between London and Windsor in less than an
hour and a quarter.
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